PRESIDENT: The rather impatient and unappreciative remarks made by the Prime Minister before a large meeting of preachers of the "free" churches about a League of Nations reminds me to write you about the state of British opinion on that subject.

What Lloyd George said to these preachers is regrettable because it showed a certain impatience of mind from which he sometimes suffers; but it is only fair to him to say that his remarks that day did not express a settled opinion.
For on more than one previous occasion he has spoken of the subject in a wholly different tone--much more appreciatively.

On that particular day he had in mind only the overwhelming necessity to win the war--other things, _all_ other things must wait.

In a way this is his constant mood--the mood to make everybody feel that the only present duty is to win the war.

He has been accused of almost every defect in the calendar except of slackness about the war.
Nobody has ever doubted his earnestness nor his energy about _that_.