To go about the country now and see what earnest and useful work is being quietly done, what loss and suffering bravely borne, confirms and renews the trust in our fellow-countrymen which might be shaken if we listened only to the utterances in the Press and in Parliament.
"Trust in the people" should be a habit of mind--a rule of action tacitly adopted--not a party watchword.

Tell a man or boy--more than once--that you trust him, and he will probably take it--and not without a warrant--that you don't, that in fact you have grave doubts but do not wholly despair.

The phrase might be taboo on the platform to raise cheap cheers but silently recognised in the Cabinet as a guide in action.

How much better would it have been all through the War, and how much better now, if there were no concealment, except when information given might assist the enemy, if we knew at once even when things went wrong! There have been times when it was necessary, in order to know at all what was really going on, to read the German reports rather than our own, subject of course to a discount.

The difficulty with those German preparations is to determine whether the discount for intentional falsification should be 5 per cent.