ABSTRACT
Mr. Lloyd George made two important changes, apart from the brief periods in which he was able to convoke a meeting of Commonwealth Ministers with his own colleagues to which he gave the name of the Imperial War Cabinet. Mr. Lloyd George's second invention, that of the War Cabinet with a small number of members, at the outset five, to whom, from 1917-8, Field Marshal Smuts was added, even though he was not a member of either House of Parliament. The War Cabinet of 1916 succeeded partly because of the loyalty of Mr. Bonar Law to Mr. Lloyd George, and partly because, since Mr. Lloyd George had really no party considerations to take seriously into account, as in the Coalition of 1915, there was no difference of view between its various members.
