The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1915. LLOYD GEORGE'S FINANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1915. LLOYD GEORGE'S FINANCE.

One of the most remarkable changes produced by the war is the recognition by his old opponents that Mr Lloyd George is a real financier. Through all the various Budget controversies Unionists, while they admired his cleverness and dexterity, would never admit that he had a real grasp of finance, but they are generously appreciative now. Mr Lloyd George may have been imperfectly acquainted with some of the minutiae of finance, but there have been senior wranglers who have had trouble with simple addition, says the Liverpool Post. The Chancellor has an intuitive comprehension of the essence of a financial problem, and he has the gift of assimilating and correlating the information of experts He has made a conquest of the city, and if i he wants a duekdom, an dit is in the j power of the city to confer it, he can have it at once. His conquest in the -wider held of international finance is' not less remarkable. The problems there are even greater and the various considerations even more complicated,' but he has won the admiration of the very able men who control the finances of France and Russia. When the magnitude of the questions to be settled, are considered, the most astounding l feature of the Paris conference is its brevity. Some of the ground had been surveyed, but the conference had many matters of the most supreme import-. ance to determine. If British armies have won fame and victory on the Con-! tinont, Mr Lloyd George has achieved equal success in the financial cam-, paign. I