He seems to have had reason to believe that Mr.Lloyd George frustrated his early efforts as a politician, indeed he told me more than once that Mr.Lloyd George had deliberately set himself to that end; and yet it was at Mr.
Lloyd George's earnest beseeching that he accepted the office of Food Controller, and once a member of his Cabinet, he seldom spoke of this old opponent without the warmest admiration.

"You can't trust him a yard," he said to me on one occasion laughing very good-naturedly; "but there is not a man in the Government who can hold a candle to him for courage and inspiration.

I know very well that I could never have done what he has done.

More than any man in the country he has pulled us through the critical days of the war.

He is wonderful--nothing short of wonderful--and sometimes I feel almost fond of him, for he has many likeable sides to his character; all the same, I know very well he is not to be trusted.