CHAPTER IV

THE NEED OF NEW LEADERS

Ie TEVER, since the death of Alfred the
| Great, have the British people needed
A .leaders as much as they do at this
moment.

The old leaders are worn out. They have
lost their way. They are no longer leaders.
They are only opportunists and officials,
drifting hither and thither by the pressure of
each day’s events.

They have no plan. They have no policy.
They have no remedies. The Great War
overwhelmed them all, and it has left them
stunned and stupefied.

They can only babble old phrases that have
no longer any meaning—they can only offer
old remedies that have no effect upon the new
ills of to-day.

They are all afraid. They realize their own
incompetence. They are too small and too soft
for the tremendous tasks that must be done.
They have no will-power and no tenacity.
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