§A series of articles by the editor of the Nation has brought to the forefront of politics during recent weeks the future relations between the Liberal Party and the Labour Party. So far as the leaders are concerned on either side, we are not yet much enlightened. Nevertheless, Mr Lloyd George has produced the impression that, on terms, he would not decline a working arrangement between the two parties. And Mr Snowden that he, also on terms, would welcome it. Lord Oxford—perhaps wisely—has avoided the issue for the present by occupying his speech with perfervid declarations that no conversations have occurred as yet.

Lord Oxford may be right to suppose that there is no hurry. No hurry, that is, to decide. But nothing is more necessary than that those of us who have no responsibility should speak our minds. It is the urgent subject for discussion wherever Liberals are gathered together. §

I do not wish to live under a Conservative government for the next twenty years. I believe that the progressive forces of the country are hopelessly divided between the Liberal Party and the Labour Party.