28 FEBRUARY 1920, Page 1

The chief point to notice in the election is that

Mr. Asquith took up an unequivocal position against Labour, and is triumph- ant upon a platform which nobody could possibly misunderstand Needless to say, Mr. Asquith is not opposed to the proper and very necessary amelioration of the worker's conditions. What he did declare against was the right claimed by. Labour to enforce a policy of nationalization—whether it means Syndicalism, or Guild Socialism, or Soviet Communism, or only Fabian State locialispx—upon tlig whole nation although that policy is believed in by only a minority.