Lloyd George's Cabinet memorandum

Extract from David Lloyd George's memorandum to the Cabinet on the war situation, February 1915.

Lloyd George wrote this memorandum when he was still chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith's Liberal government, a full three months before he was appointed to the new post of minister of munitions in the coalition government formed in May 1915. It shows many of the ideas that characterised his attitude to the British war effort: greater munitions productivity; a more interventionist role for the state in mobilising economic resources; and raising larger numbers of men for the British army. Interestingly, Lloyd George does not yet see the need for compulsory military service.
Catalogue reference: MUN 5/6/170/23 (25 Feb 1915)

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