MR LLOYD GEORGE

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 97, 26 April 1916, Page 5

MR LLOYD GEORGE

WARM DEFENCE OF THE

MINISTER.

REAL LEADER OF THE NATION

(Received April 25, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, April-25. Mr Ivellaway, M.P--, who is Dr ■\ddison's secretary, in. a letter to the press, defends Mr Lloyd George, who s«,ved the Liberal party iwifce from disaster in twelve months. In the early stages of the,war the money position was most serious. No one could deny that Mr Lloyd George saved the position. Similarly when a shortage ,of munitions cropped up, he converted the country from Land's End to Jon-u o' Groats into a great arsenal. Mr L\6yd George had now brought Cabinet to realise that if the Germans were to be beaten %ye must organise our whole 'available., fanhood. There was a hope 1o <itive him out of the Cabinet. Even if this succeeded it could not prevent him from being the real leader cf the nation. His only crime was tlua/t he had seen clearer and sooner than had his critics;