CHAPTER XL 



THE LAND AND THE NATIONAL SAFETY. 



There is some reason to believe in the possibility 

 of a settlement of the British land question 

 being attempted suddenly one day on the bold 

 warning of the soldier and the sailor, instead of 

 as a result of a process of ordinary political 

 conversion to a recognition of the impossibility 

 of building an enduring national greatness on 

 any foundations of which the profitable farm is 

 not the chief stone. Certainly British agricul- 

 ture would not be allowed to remain in its present 

 state after a great European war, presuming 

 that Great Britain survived that war as an 

 independent power. Possibly a drastic change 

 will come before that war from some urgent 

 warning on the part of the defence authorities, 

 who are now engaged in going over again at 

 confidential committee meetings the inquiry 



