The public does not feel great alarm simply because it has been kept in too great ignorance.

But the political faction is so far the stronger.

It attempts to minimize the facts, and, probably for political reasons, it refuses to give these discouraging facts wide publicity.

The politicians urge that it is necessary to conceal the full facts from the Germans.

They also see great danger in throwing the public into a panic.
Mr.Lloyd George is always optimistic and he is too much inclined to yield his judgment to political motives.