MR. LLOYD GEORGE—DICTATOR.

New Zealand Tablet, 30 January 1919, Page 22

MR. LLOYD GEORGE—DICTATOR.

The speech at Wolverhampton was full of platitudes and-full of evidence that Mr. Lloyd George does not dare to speak out the real conditions under which the Tories have permitted him to pose as their leader (says an exchange of recent date). Nobody need believe him when he talks of taking land for the soldiers ; he himself knows that the Tories won't let him. But we can easily believe the end of his speech, in which he demands a House of Commons as obedient to his orders as a regiment to those of its colonel! What has Mr. George done that England should make him dictator ? He entered into the inheritance of the preparations made during the first two years of the war. He ha,s had the luck to be in office when Germany admitted defeat. He says he discovered Foch! But M. Clemenceau discovered that military genius before the war broke out. To pretend that Mr. George found out a man whom the. French people had not noticed is the merest nonsense. Who can think that France had not thought over the winning of the battle of the Maine ? Mr. George might with as much reason and truth say that he had discovered General Pershing, or President Wilson, or the Continent of America. What Mr. George has discovered is, that he has no hope of remaining Premier except as the tool of the Tories and the Tory-Liberals. His political platform betrays him. He has ceased to be a democrat. He dreams of being a dictator, His ambition is to rule over England and the British House of Commons as William Hohenzollern ruled over Germany and the. Reichstag. Every vote for Lloyd George is a vote for Prussianising England and militarising the workins* asses. O ■mill iii«ii ■■■!■! »■! ■■■ ■■■■■in" "■ ■