_If the telegraphic quotation is a reliable guide, Mr. Lloyd Georges fourth volume of hhis "memoirs will strengthen the public demand for some drastic ban on the use of official documents by biographically inclined politicians. "Much allowance is. made niceties of good form." Yet, surely, even that dubios leniency must be refused to his in-dietment of Sir Douglas Haig's con-nct of the operations at Passcshen.* dade. He might, at least, be reminded that the Prime Minister who recommended for high honour and substantial "pecuniary reward the soldier now "accused of "'vanly and insane egoism," cannot divest himself of a certain responsibility. Whether the material on which Mr. Lloyd George now bases his accusations was available in 1918 or subsequent to Earl Haig's ennoblement is really of small account. There still remain those dictates of common decency. the neglect of which cannot be lightly condoned, For the rest, those who have but cursorily followed Mr. Lloyd George's passionate vindication of his own wisdom will be inclined to agree that, as a judge of egoism, he stands in a class by himself,
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