The Prime Minister
The Prime Minister was absent, for we regret to learn that he has had to have an operation on one eye. That he is in good health otherwise he showed in his constituency last week. On Friday he spoke there and defended his retention in the Cabinet of the four Ministers who 'dissent from the tariff policy, and he declared that it was still the National Government, which ne had striven to preserve. As we Wrote last week, we are glad that he succeeded. On tariffs he spoke as though he had hopes of success in bringing down the tariffs of other countries ; apparently he believes in the tarif de combat. The Cabinet, he said, would Meet the problems of Reparations and War Debts without differing. He deplored what is going on at Shanghai as contrary to the spirit of the League. We heartily wish him well in his recovery.
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