The sun., 1916-12-10

and women lcapcd on the tables,
danced on the dishes, Rugged each
other-it was an emotional explosion,
violent and not ridiculous. \ few feet
from whore sat stood Lloyd George.
lie was with a big man perhaps
Massingham), and looked unusually
small. lie is "A small honed man,
slightly built. with too much mustache
and grizzled hair. too long. hanging
on his coat coilIr. lie has "A slouch-
ing way of holding himself. but
abruptiy-when he gives his mind to
anything, he stands up straight i'll his
clothes.
And this flight overhead stirred him
To the marrow.
He drew himself up. straight and
tense a. IA fiddle string Iou could all
most hear him vibrate. | have never
had an impression of anything 80 in
tensely alive. lie was waving his hat
and cheering.
And | looked at Lord Northclife. In
all that roaring crowd, shaken with
contagious emotion. he was, | think.
the only quiet man. lie was quiet as
n stone, lie had looked at the flight
overhead; he had said the right thing:
1T Is the beginning of a new world.
and then he stood loukNG at the
I ~crowd-that wildly pulsating thing
that was the heart Of democracy-and
at Lloyd George. who stood ~ little in
front of it. waving his nonconforniSt
hat as though II were IA flag.
And there You have no bad picture
OF what is happening in England to-
day.
Behind aroused England. behind the
parliamentary. hat waving leadership
stands NorthCliffc the steady. far see
ing. hard driving. practica! man. whose
training vas got not in law or diplo-
macy but in life. Md the import of
IL for England Is very great. 1t means
an end of two things sluwuess and
bungling.
England. knowing She is immortal.
has always had a comfortable feeling
that she could take her time about
things. b. Eu Northclffr j. not slow
and he cannot tolerate dawdliug. For
too many years he has been used
horribly used to the swift oNactitude
Of life, .Nld he does not hunc,c. You
can't "muddlo through" the daily ca
sarian operation of bringing the Lon
don Times Ia birth.
lie has found in Lloyd George an
agcnt-and AN oncrgy-rcady to his
hand. The n thing essentially great
IN N~orthcliffc has been that. always,
he knew how 10 use men. Napoleon
AT -. Helena. looking back on his life,
said his secret was that he knew how
to get out of men all they had to give.
Some OF that faculty Northcliffc had
at the beginning. and he has developed
and perfected II through years of labor
in the most complex of all the man-han-
ding oCCupations-journal!Sm When
he picked up the wild and ardent
Wclshman, as II picks NJ a weapon,
n" knew precisely what he was doing
and precisely what Lloyd George could
do and would do. II" had measured
the force and the d.rccI.uu. And he
used il. first of all. To- remove the fabric
Of old Ineptltudcs that blocked the way
to swift and direct action. II was in
order to give Lloyd ,ioorg" arm-room
that he chased away the gcnteel but
cumbersome Coalition.
The most evident thing is that from
now on YOU are En.ng To see the power
Of government harden. contract, con.
dense, affirm itself more and more.
Parliament Is going to cut the ctcklc
and come TO the 'usscS. Inevitably
with that grim. vehement, war-mindcd
man-handlcr, Northcliftc, standing in
the BACKGROUND. II Will not matter
much what form this condensation of
the ministry takes, For practical war
direction it is too loose and too nu-
merous. It has been like the four-and
twenty h~alf-hakcd ~blackhirds. all sing
ing.
It seems probable hat The heart and
kernel of the Lloyd GcorG" ministry
viii he "A war council a compact com
mittcc of public safety. This Will he q
way of giving the public what 1t wants
for YOU have cot to bear in mind tina
Northclinc's strength lies in the fac
that he Is canallaing the public will
What he did first was to rouse tn,
courage OF demo raCy-tho high nm,
comfortable courage Of England, What
he is doing now is only the work o.
guidance. He Is giving II direction.
And YOU say hat direction is I.loyC
George?
You may put II that way IL YOU will
for the it would seem Lore
Northcliffe aims AT an inner "ounci
Of purely executive men, who shall III
fired and led hy the swift, intuitiv,
genius for affairs of David lhoy,
George. But neither he nor deUnnc
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