Mr. Lloyd George. I am not surprised. Unprincipled attacks are often made on me by political muckrakers. I sometimes think that I shall give up politics.
Lord Crewe. H'm.
Mr. Birrell. And suggestions are made that Ministers should be hanged in Downing Street. Now in Dublin one allows a certain latitude, but in Downing Street!
Mr. McKenna. I have consulted the police authorities on the point. They inform me that the lamp-posts would only bear an exceedingly light weight.
Lord Haldane. That is most reassuring.
Colonel Seeley. There's another threat. They talk of the Lords throwing out the Army Bill.
Mr. Lloyd George. Good—a saving of thirty (or is it fifty?) millions—a great democratic Budget—and an election-winning cry, "The Lords destroy the Army."
Lord Crewe. H'm.
Colonel Seeley. But we need the Army.
Mr. Lloyd George. What for? Its elimination would be a great moral example to Germany. Some nation must take the lead in the peace movement.