After having presented this apparently clear ease for resolutely keeping
the Government in power Mr. Lloyd George threw several sops to Sir John Simon. For instance, "We Liberals have been a-little too timid. It would have been a very good thing to have asserted our Parliamentary right to carry our criticism up to the point of defeating the Government. If there is a crisis on a matter of vital importance we shall have to act regardless of consequences." Next he said that there was no " deal " with the Government. But finally he swerved back to his first position—" We ought to give the Government another chance." It seems that there IS, in the current phrase, contact but not compact. We agree that the growth of Liberalism is a strong possibility. There is more feeling for Free Trade in the country than the Protectionists know, but one thing stands in
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