ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. By 1918 the Lloyd George government had produced a strategy for containing such dissent as existed while anticipating those measures which would be required if either anti-war dissent or industrial unrest came to imperil Britain's war effort. For the moment thoroughgoing censorship, decapitation of the dissenting machine and patriot violence were sufficient, None of these tactics either was admitted or was the product of special legislation, but all were organized and co-ordinated by the government. Against the possibility that a more dangerous dissent developed, a more thoroughgoing suppression was prepared. This would involve methods which would never have been envisioned, much less permitted, in 1914. By 1918, however, social political polarization had increased to the point where a working consensus in British society would not only follow the government. But was seeking to drive it to contain dissent and win the war by whatever means were necessary.
