I think our statesmen may be better servants of the great nation they have the honour to serve if they see themselves as others see them--others who are not political adversaries, and who are more interested in the moral and intellectual condition of the State than in the fortunes of its parties. No man can ever be worthy of England; but we must be anxious when the heart and centre of public service are not an earnest desire to be as worthy of her as possible. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PUBLISHER'S NOTE v INTRODUCTION vii I.--MR. LLOYD GEORGE 1 II.--LORD CARNOCK 19 III.--LORD FISHER 29 IV.--MR. ASQUITH 39 V.--LORD NORTHCLIFFE 49 VI.--MR. ARTHUR BALFOUR 59 VII.--LORD KITCHENER 71 VIII.--LORD ROBERT CECIL 85 IX.--MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL 97 X.--LORD HALDANE 109 XI.--LORD RHONDDA 123 XII.--LORD INVERFORTH 135 XIII.--LORD LEVERHULME 151 XIV.--CONCLUSION 163 ILLUSTRATIONS RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE _Frontispiece_ LORD CARNOCK 20 BARON FISHER 30 RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH 40 LORD NORTHCLIFFE 50 RT. HON. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 60 LORD KITCHENER 72 LORD ROBERT CECIL 86 RT. HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL 98 RT. HON. RICHARD BURDON HALDANE 110 LORD RHONDDA 124 LORD INVERFORTH 136 LORD LEVERHULME 152 MR. LLOYD GEORGE THE RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Born, Manchester, 1863; son of the late Wm. George, Master of the Hope Street Unitarian Schools, Liverpool. Educated in a Welsh Church School and under tutors. By profession a solicitor. President of the Board of Trade, 1905-8; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1908-15; Minister of Munitions, 1915-16; Secretary for War, 1916; Prime Minister, 1916-20. CHAPTER I MR. LLOYD GEORGE _"And wars, like mists that rise against the sun, Made him but greater seem, not greater grow."_ DRYDEN. If you think about it, no one since Napoleon has appeared on the earth who attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George. This is a rather startling thought. It is significant, I think, how completely a politician should overshadow all the great soldiers and sailors charged with their nation's very life in the severest and infinitely the most critical military struggle of man's history.