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LONDON, May 1st.
THE PRIME MINISTER AT WINDSOR,
Mr. Rawany MacDonald and his daugh. ter, Miss Jahbel MacDonald, have been spending the week-end at Windsor as the private guests of the King and Queen. This in a sentence expresses more elo quently than many columns could do the change which has come over the spirit of the time in which we are living. One might discuss it from the point of view of the orientation of British Labour politica Who could have imagined even few years ago that such a thing would come in pass-that a Labour Socialist and his daughter would be privately enter- Framed at Windsor. Castle?
But at the moment there is nothing to justify the fond hopes of sensation. nongers. What is true is that Liberals. ars becoming exceedingly restive under the attacks made upon them by Labour in the constituencies. Labour organisers trying to undermine the seats of Liberal are engaged in the congenial task of
MPs in the country. Steps are being taken to oppose them at the next General Election. A Labour man is coming out against Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. Asquith finds a Labour opponent already in the field. It is therefore no wonder that keen resentment is felt by the whole body of Liberals, who consider it intolerable that while they are keeping Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his friends in office by support in the House of Commons all the forces of Labour are being - mobilised against them in the constituencies. THE RANK AND FILE ANGRY.
Members of the Government are not, at least openly, encourging these at tacks. But they are doing nothing to sible. The raak and Els of the Liberal "restrain_the' people immediately. respon
party are angry, and have been calling, upon the leaders, either Mr. Asquith or r. Lloyd George, or both together, to inake, it quite plain and definite that Lanerai support of the Government will he withdrawn unless there is a truce.
It is by no means apparent, however, that the Labour Ministers are willing to oblige. The fact is that in the opinion for the majority of the Labour party it is their business to snissh the Liberals
But this is not in my humble opinion the most important point, novel aid important though it Le What is note worthy above all else is the fact that that eixit is the outwaril and visible sign of the adaptability of the Monarchy in this country. Moreover, it is also proof of the adaptability of the Socialist move ment in this country. It must surgis make Moscow despair! Bat it will carry a lesson to others besides the Bolshevist oligarchy. In this land of free institn tions there is the incomparable power of accommodation to popular ideas. King George sheds & new honour upon his exalted office by what he has done in this matter; and he shows himself as a steady. ing influence in our system of constitu-being returned to the House of Commons tional government.
IN OTHER DAYS.
to get rid of the small remnant which represents the once powerful Liberal party in Parliament. If this can be done the arena would be cleared for a straight fight between Labour and Comervatism, and Labour wire-pullers and party man- agers believe that in such circumstances they would standa good chance of
with a working ruajority, instend "of having to rely upon the good-will of Laborals from day to day. It will be develops in the next few weeks, interesting to watch how the situation
This at all events is how the incident strikes a large section of opinion in this country. To appreciate the position fully one has only to recall that Queen Vic-CONSERVATIVES GETTING READY. toria, as Mr. Buckle tells in his "Life The Conservative "party are getting of Lord Beaconsfield, while Mr. Glad their policy ready for the next General stone was in power used to receive con- Election I hear that expert com- stantly from his great rival, Disraeli, mittees which are at work on the various letters of advice and counsel. She sent phases of the programme it is intended. for Lord Hartington and Lord. Granville to put forward are making good progress. to try to persuade them to form a Gov- There will be no attempt to rival the erument rather than have Gladstone at Labour party, in bidding political bribes the helm after his Midlothian trinimph for votes The Conservatives are not of 1880...
proposing to promise impossible things. The line that is being taken at head. quarters, and will be followed by candi dates, is that the party mean to stand for sano and steady progress, the development of trade, and that element of security on which the prosperity of the whole nation depends. Liberal party in a state of confusion, the Conservatives regard their chances in the constituencies as very bright indeed.
That was only forty years age. Such thing seems impossible now. "King George is prepared to accept the verdict of the elected representatives of the people who by vote in the House of Com- mons placed M. MacDonald in the Pre- miership. He is prepared to exercise his Royal authority only in strict deference to the will of the majority in the Parlia mentary sense. With such a King on the Throne there can be no room for revolu- tionaries to make mischief. The Red Flag gentry will wave their coloured emblem in raid.......
799 MARIE CORELLÍ.
Miss Marie Corell whose death is announcel, provides a good illustration of the kind of writer whose fame is fect ing, being based on the passing fashion or mood of the hour. Some twenty" odd years ago her books sold like the prover bial hot cakes; they were in demand at home and abroad. A Corelli novel was almost the first taste of literatura soldiers wounded, in the South African war asked for when they were able to read after a spell in hospital. They were also, read in the home and in the train.
The special gift possessed by Miss Corelli was that she was able to put into the guise of a Lovel questions about life and religion which thousands were thinking in the eighties and nineties. But who cares now. Her books are in the lumber-room. Her novels, like many other popular institutions of the last generation, are only names and mean nothing at all to men and women who have passed through the testing time of the Great War.
I have a vivid recollection of Miss Corelli at the period when she was
best seller. I met her at a luncheon party, and she was dressed in a tight fitting pink costume, which gave her rather odd appearance, for she was very short and atout, with fluffy fair hair, and high colour. She always dressed younger than her age, although what. her age was is a secret known only to the | Registrar-General.
NO NEED OF A HUSBAND."
There are very few personal anecdotes connected with Miss Corelli. She was somewhat too askertige to contribute to the gaiety of the world, and her friend- whips were few. To oppose her in any way was to forfeit her good-will, and most people had occasion to oppose her at some time or other. But one story relating to the time when the Suffrag ettes were much in evidence is worth recalling. She proclaimed her belief that matt was, and would always remain, the superior of woïnan.
Thereupon she was asked why, if al thought so highly of the male sex she. had never married. There is no need," she replied, for I have three pets at home which, together, answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls, every morning, a parrot which swears all the afternoon, and a cat which comes home late at night.” LABOUR PARTY AND THE LIBERALS.
The newspapers have been publishing a good deal about the unfortunate posi- on of the Liberal party at the present time, We are ssured that the trace hetween Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George will soon come to an end. There is trouble among the rank and file, A new leader with plenty of energy and an out-and-dat fighting man is called for. Of course no serious political writer would venture to predict what may, can, or will happen to the Liberal party, be cause for one thing the Liberals are on the slippery slippery slope on which they stepped when they decided to help the Labour party into office.
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