The Archive · 1922

TaELS 12 PER ANNUM

space for the redressing of such an upheaval. Yet somehow the country has been kept from the revolution once confidently predicted, and budgets have somehow been balanced and the country's honour preserved. Call Mr. Lloyd George an opportunist, but consider whether anything but opportunism was humanly possible amid the conditions both at home and abroad of these three years. Even if that mitigation be disallowed by his detractors, they must still allow him great—great in the war, great in standing almost alone to hold back the Turkish fanatic from Europe, great in vision and in his courage. eons, tyranny-hating soul.

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