As regards this second difficulty, pressure was brought against him from the very highest political quarters to admit certain claims and to avoid legal action.

His reply was, "I will resign before I initial those claims." He fought them all, and he beat them all.

He saved the taxpayer millions of pounds.
As for the disposal of stores, he has already brought to the Exchequer over L500,000,000, and before these pages are printed that sum may be increased to something like L800,000,000.
The least imaginative reader will perceive from this brief statement that a veritable Napoleon of Commerce has presided over the business side of the war.

Where there was every opportunity for colossal waste, there has been the most scientific economy; where there was every likelihood of wholesale corruption, there has been an unsleeping vigilance of honesty; and where, at the end, there might have been a tired carelessness resulting in ruinous loss, there has been up to the very last moment an unremitting enthusiasm for the taxpayers' interest which has resulted in a credit contribution to the national balance sheet of L800,000,000.
I have left to the last this not unworthy feature of Lord Inverforth's labours.

Those labours have been given to the nation.