The recent political crisis ip England has a decidedly comic aspect which must appeal to Mr. Lloyd George's sense of humour even more than the whole episode tickles his vanity. The revolt of the extra-mural or outside the Cabinet Unionists, the wild men, "the people who say bar-bar," headed by Sir George Younger, began to brew last January and came to a head a week ago. What they exactly wanted is not very clear, probably a Minister of their own and the fruits of office. Mr. Lloyd George met them simply with a threat to resign. Whereupon the Unionists in the Government felt into a panic, turned furiously upon their colleagues outside the Cabinet and have fairly grovelled to Mr. Lloyd George to stay where he is. Even more interesting is the alarm of the French Press, with whom the Premier would have seemed to be anything but popular latterly, lest he should go. Such a position as that of Mr. Lloyd
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