MR LLOYD GEORGE and Sir Rufus Isaacs are determined not to let the Marconi scandal [100 Years Ago, 3 May] drop. On the contrary, they appear to hope that they will be able to make capital out of their egregious conduct. Fresh from the penitents' form, they have thrown off the white sheet and are now assuming the martyr's crown. At the luncheon on Tuesday at the National Liberal Club, at which they were the honoured guests, the Chancellor of the Exchequer dilated in pathetic complaints on the sufferings which he and his colleagues have undeservedly endured, till "all for pity and self-love he wept." That the friend of the poor should be harried by the aristocratic frequenters of Ascot was a spectacle to move to tears, and Mr Lloyd George's antics in the rôle of the injured innocent appear to have reduced the lunchers at the National Liberal Club to a like state of maudlin sentimentality. Commenting on the speeches, the Daily News expresses its belief that "the immediate sequel of the Marconi affair will be a powerful reaction in favour of the Government and its policy." But it adds the curious remark that "the attack on Mr George has failed to drive him out of public life, but it will serve to make public life purer than it has been in the past." If this means anything at all, it means that conduct like that of the Ministers in question must not be repeated. And this admission, it seems to us, is fatal to their claim to be looked upon as martyrs in a great and noble cause.