15 APRIL 1922, Page 2

Lord Salisbury, who, like his father, uses plain words about

plain facts, told the Junior Imperial League on Saturday last that, when the General Election came, they must defend Con- servatism as Conservatism. The Coalition leaders, he said, haddone well during the War, but not so well since the Armistice. Conservatives,' who could not approve of many of the acts of the Coalition, must formulate their own definite policy—" some- thing that they could grasp and feel and be proud of." Con- servatism "would have nothing to do with condoning murder or assassination." It believed in settled and not spasmodic economy. It disliked bureaucracy and grandiose legislative experiments. -