Neutral minds doubt whether Mr.Lloyd George is sufficiently well-balanced for the responsibilities of high office, and express misgivings lest the era of social reform be inaugurated too rapidly.

The obvious danger of a fall always confronts ambition in politics, but the danger is only obvious to the onlooker.

Pressing forward the legislative measures he has set his heart upon, and impatient to carry out the policy that seems to him of first importance to the State, Mr.Lloyd George pays little heed to the criticism of friends or foes.

A supreme self-confidence carries him along, and the spur of ambition is constantly pricking.

Political co-operation is difficult for such a man, and an indifference to reforms that are not of his initiation, and a willingness to wreck legislation that cannot bear his name, are a weakness in Mr.Lloyd George that may easily produce a fall.
Only a very strong man can afford to say that a reform shall be carried in his way, or not at all, in cheerful disregard of the wishes of colleagues and followers.