Mr. Lloyd George has now been Prime Minister of Great Britain for six years and, in a position of conspicuous difficulty, he has (as even his many detractors must admit) attained to and maintained a remarkable degree of success. He has~just returned to London from another of the many conferences of these days and the reception given to him seems to indicate that his star, despite all said to the contrary, is by no means on the wane. How comes it. that Mr. Lloyd George succeeds where others would inevitably fail? Is it not because he is a man of singular flexibility rather than depth of mind—the natural result of vast and varied experiences carried through with a smiling countenance in circwmstances which would appel men of a different and a deeper mentality? Millions of persons are ready to place their trust in him, to swear by him, but no-one is more confident_in Mr.-Lloyd George than is Mr. Lloyd George himself. This confidence, together with the unquestionable sanity of his mind, allied with his ripe experience, is the true cause of his extraordinary success—extraordinary because Mr. Lloyd George is by no means, intellectually, a. man of the first order in any direction. He is the living embodiment of the aspirations of the inarticulate masses—their very high priest. It would be difficult to say' which has stood him in greater stead—his glowing Celtic ardour or his undoubted belief in himself and in humanity's ability to be elevated, if given the proper direction. Simple and direct as he is. Mr. Lloyd George is something of an enigma and for generations he probably will remain so.
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