Lord Morley was almost breaking his heart with despair, and to this day regards Great Britain's entrance into the war as a mistake.

Sir Edward Grey was agonizing to avert war; but Mr.Lloyd George was among the first to see this war as the opportunity of a nobler civilization.

Destroy German militarism, shatter the Prussian tradition, sweep away dynastic autocracies, and what a world would result for labouring humanity! This was 1914.

But soon after the great struggle had begun the note changed.

Hatred of Germany and fear for our Allies' steadfastness occupied the foremost place in his mind.