5 JUNE 1926, Page 3

* * * At the National Liberal Club on Friday,

May 28th, Lord Grey of Fallodon made one of his rare and welcome speeches. Reviewing the history of the general strike he criticized the Government for originally refusing a subsidy but afterwards granting it under the threat of the strike. When the notices for the strike had been sent out the Government ought, in his opinion, at once to have refused to continue negotiations. They decided, how- ever, to continue negotiations and then suddenly broke them off " in a way which gave the impression that they had done so on some trivial incident." When once the strike was in action, however, there was in his judgment nothing to do but to support the Government unreservedly.