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OUR LONDON LETTER.- MR. BONAB LAWS RESIGNATION AS PRIME MINISTER.
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SOME CURIOUS CROSS-CURRENTS IN POLITICAL LIFE,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, May 26th.
to the resignation took every- -
Lys
Foreign Oleo is once again free to declare its own views in European policy without having to modify them in order to maintain a sctitious appearance of unity with Allies,
with axes of their was w F
The Fordgn Secretary a bnt not an friendly admonition to Germany that she must come to closer touch with realities may prove in the
the long run an important contri bution to a European settlement, since it has
better. chance of being
heeded than if it had come from the occupants of the Ruhr. The adhesion of Italy to British policy the this matter-emphasised by ont visit of our King and Queen to that country-is another valcable element. ruSMÍAN TRUCULENCE.
protests against the British Note to Russia.
THE PREMIERSHIP."
Mr. Bonar Law's resignatich as Pehen Minister has been the event of the week Scarcely anything else is being talked about at presentar, of course, there is a deal of speculation and some noxiety'
It would be unwise to attach too much the future of
of the Conservative importance to the Labour Party's vehement by complete surprise Mr. Bonne Law We are again witnessing the familiar spec
himself that his decision was sudden. The fact is that his throat affection is more acle of that Party being wagged by the extremo Socialist elements, and of Mr. SPTIOUS in its even by nature than was supposed naisay MacDobald and the other offeinl
sufferer; and the utmost leaders facking the courage to
to withstand is felt with him nt ramatically swift end to his career."
the them. The extremists are busy getting up bogey in the form of an alleged danger Since the resignation was announced it
surprising to observe
and valiantly knocking it down. the 12.
are broken off with Russia the widespread character of the tributes of
will and estrein time have heart paid to ment, who deliberately commit optrages on
Ilie with the Soviet Govern reaport Mr. Bonar Law. The messages received by
BEY financa
inca malitious mere. British trawlers
in India and this country. ments in
The revelation of these transactions re-
him, and the references publicly made to
his work, show that ne statesman in recent
times has ever attained to such. a degree hisonality baval on the's recognition of and fairness. was not an bail
ต eloquent & speakers, but ha extraordinary gifts of dealing with the most complicate RI litiealt subjects without notes or preparation.
Mis
secret the greatest credit on the British
service, and has caused
grave disquiet to the Bolshevistad still more to certain people in this country who have been draw- ing their money. They are naturally perturbed by the prospect of their supplies
the saddest
case
was wonderful to see him rise in the House.P. who was unsuccessfully opposed at
is memory was truly astonishing. It being cut off. But perhaps
that of Lt. Commander Kenworthy, the
the
of Commons and reply to a debate General Election by Mr. W. H. Looker, for which facts and figures were freely used innerly a solicitor in Hongkong. Ever since
detail by a succession af
ho
• the deck with the fists of lavered the House of Commons he has l
It
speaker ane.
was done with consummate as: without a note of any kind, and
and wishoot hesitation or prevarication.
rule)
ings with the House he was never
THE SUCCESSION.
Commons
opinion generally
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huself as the apologist for the Soviet, and claims to be an expert on Kassia because he spent a few weeks in the country last year. But when the agents of Soviet commit
3 in temper, and was always courteque
outrages on Hull trawlers by man was more liked; and even the ex-eizing their boats and clapping the crews tremists on the Labour beneles, opposed into prison, the Member for Central Hall as they are to the invernment, are is seriously embarrassed and does not kuow
turn. genuinely sorry that Mr. Bonar Law has which way to
Public
is behind the quitted the seere.
Government in the action that has been taken against Russin in-demauding that British fishermen shall not be interfered Mr. Stanley Baldwin's succession to the Premiership was almost inevitable.
with on their lawful'occasions. One would The only other name put forward in connee
have expected the Labour Party to give tion with the offer was that of Lord these honest toilers their sympathy and Curzon: but the Times and the Towing support against injustice. But circunstan Lust disposed of the *ggestion by indictators can do no wrong!
ces alter cases. Apparently the Russian out that it was impracticable to have ก
prime, Minister in the House of Lonis, woRKING THE 'ORACLE. where he
be quel upon to defend Information which I have received from a the Government seeing that, with Labour as the official Opposition in Parliament trustworthy source in close touch with the
politics ques there would
innor working of. Labour in not Sea Enbor
show that the moment the recent British the Lords to
A House of man was, therefore, needed, wad Note to Moscow was publishof the extreme win had no serious rival among the sup.Socialists in the Labour Party became a porters of the Government in that Chamber.piece of machinery, as it were, that was Apart from the foregoing considerations, worked by the ruling cabal in Russia. It is Lord Curzon is popular either in not a new disclosure that Socalists here political circles or the country..
subsidised by He was re
oney which the Com missars syncLSZE- from
the wretched popula "always a "superior" person since THES
tion an which they practise their extortion. at Oxford when he went by that name. He has remained exclusivo and Sir Basil Thomson, the late chief of deut aloof, and the passing of the years has only land Yard, gave the public that infortastion
But
we recently
have served to remove line farther from per-many months ago.
the sulle on sunal knowledge of men and affars, and the been made acquainted with
which the transaction is conducted. realities of everyday* life. --
Tonciliately after the delivery of the British Note to the Soviet their hirelings Old memories are recalled in the minds in this entry sens telegrams to all the local branches urging them to begin a pro- of middle-aged politicians by Lord Morley's letter to the liberals of Montros his cons- Russian agitation among Labour organisa tituency in former days.
Loni Morley is tions. Thus the extremists throughout the woldom. heard of now. To present day polidareign Guvernulent opposing British Labour, movement were set to work on behalf ticians he is little more than a memordeatands. The war isolated him and bis books s in his quict home on the edge of Wimbledon Com- on, and it is only at rare intervals that hints of what he was doing have been made known in the s nicer years, Happily, his letter shows that his mental vision is was likely to do itself a great deal more la keen nud accurate as it was a generation ago, when he held a place second only to that of Gladstone and seemed destined toment of foreign affairs. I am told that the be the man on whom the mantle of the great prophet would one day fall.
in
LORD MORLEY BREAKS BILENCE.
SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE
There are, however, traces of a struggle. The more astute politicinus in the Labour Party seem to have perceived that the Party than good by labelling itself as the trusty friends of the Moscow tyranny in the treas Socialists demanded the formation of Councils of Action ma ajuns of securing In politics, as at cards, the onlooker often sces most of the game, especially when he triumph for Trotsky in the controversy the British Government; and the has been a very experinced and skilful Daily ferill, as the official organ, bucked player himself.
Lord
Morley says: Present
up the suggestion. have
ve become empty of all Then Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as the
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party presave nicknames with no re-chairman of the Parliamentary Labour cognisablo meaning, bottles with bits of the Party, gare unstrong hint in favour of eau-
contents
old labels, but with no inspiring liquor in- tion and restraint by issuing a statement side." Several of Lord Morley's old Cabinet that the hostile intrigues with which the colleagues would be better for reflecting British Note charged the Moscow despotism on this dictum. There is to put it had better be acknowledged as proved, and
reasonable im bigber, a
chance. that
cho regarded as an intolerable infraction of Lord Motley is right.
Russian Government's undertaking in the Trade Agreement with this-
But country. FRIENDSHIPS IN POLITICS.
this discreet advice was over-ruled, and the Daily Herald weat so far as to stigmatise the leading statements in the British Note
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as itu lie
1 hear that some of the Asquithian Liberals appear to be are conduct in polit to lay it down as a rule of cal circles that members of one party or
The sequel was the out-pouring of pro- group must not indulge in friendly in Russian oratory in the House of Commons
of tercourse with those other parties of a few nights ago. In this connection what
Whip groups. The Chief of the Independent
is commented upon as particularly dis- Liberals informed Earl Beauchamp the other day that it had been reported to him creditable is the subservience of Liberal that he (the Earl) had been seen leaving members to the Red Flag stalwarts. The Liberals supported the Socialists in cham- Encl Mr. Lloyd George's motor car.
Such an Beauclump promptly reseated the implied pioning Bolshevist pretensions. censure. There have been similar incidents endeavour to embarrass the Lovernment for the sake of partianship shows the level to of the kind of late.
HB.
The objections are
ridiculong for it hasnurally beld to be which Liberalism has descended today.-
in the
been the rule House of Commons that political antagonising should be kept separate from
social relationships. For this reason Cabinet
Ministers have frequently been found dining THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT with leading members of the
Opposition,
and later in the same ening they have
coleavoured to scarify
aather in deite cannot be overestimated. Bight standa
There are many who can recall that after the Home Rál split Mr. Josepli berlain remained a
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continued
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