Mr. Churchill, speaking at Sunderland last Saturday, said that the
country was recovering, rapidly from the wax, but that we could not afford as yet to revert to party politics. National unity did 'not imply unanimity. We -could not try to conciliate the "thin-blooded defeatists," still lees the Belsheviks, the avowed enemies of civilization. The gulf between Bolshevism and democracy could not be bridged. Great Britain could not take lessons in government from the crazy fanatics of Central Europe or the barbarous Communists of Russia, who were marching back into the Dark Ages. What had happened in Russia would not be allowed to happen here. If we returned to party politics of the old 'End, the Labour Party 'would be pushed into power- " at a period in their develop- ment when they were quite unfitted -for the responsibility of government, and when through their incompetence they would come hopelessly to grief at our expense." The wax had closed a political epoch. "There is scarcely any greater worthy object which either the Conservative or Liberal Parties have set before themselves in the last twenty yeaea which has not been achieved or is not now conceded." New lines of cleavage had come.
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