Mr. Churchill invited the conference to affirm the principle of
co-operation between parties and classes as opposed to party strife and class war, and to declare for a programme of economy and social reform. He chaffed the Opposition for declaring at one and the same time that the Coalition had lost the confidence of the nation and that it would be acting unfairly if it appealed to the country just now. People, he said, mainly desired stability and continuity in the administration. "Alone, or ahhost alone, Britain towersuplike a great rock in the midst.of drifting waters." Much depended on the strength and authority of our Ministers in dealing with the nations of exhausted Europe and with America. For our foreign and for our domestic policy we needed a strong and durable Government_ affording to all classes guarantees against fundamental. political change and giving us a breathing-space.
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