In. polities "never" is a dangerous word to use, The article of faith ioday may become the enemy's programme to-morrow. The foe against whom the political warrior is Mercely fighting may be a brother Inearms before the sun goes down on the wrath of either of them, So, tis not surprising to find that Mr. Lloyd George has discovered in Dr, Addison a kindred spirit in spite of the fact that their political tabd nowadays are different—Mr. Goer being one brand of Liberal (the brand snatched from the burning Perhaps) and Dr. Addison, formerly Liberal, being Labour and' a newly= elected' M.P. at that. It appears that, before Swindon made Dr. Addison its member again, Mr. Lloyd George intimated that he favoured Liberal support of that Labour can~ didate against Mr. W. W. Wakedeld. Yet, ye short years ago, Mr. George "one of fis delightfully frank personal revelations, told ence that Dr. Addison left Liberal for the Labour camp because Mr. George had sacked him "for incompetence' It is nice to be ex-Prime Minister and so completely Independent of the trammels utterances. Mr. Lloyd George has this advantage over the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone: it is most un~ likely' that the ery "what did Mr, Loyd George say in nineteen whatever it was?" will ever be an effective political retort. Most people have a shrewd idea of what Mr. Gladstone said on most occasions, Few, surely, can have the fogeiest notion of what Mr. Lloyd George did say or will say on any given [subject at any time.
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