Gossip is hardening into conviction that there will be a
General Election not later than the winter or the spring, If the conviction Is well founded, we must -view the prospect with considerable anxiety, The Government have no duty but to get on with the war. To open the flood-gates of party warfare—that is what a General Election would ablest certainly mean—is to guarantee a great dissipation of national energy. The Times has set forth a programme for Mr. Lloyd George which contains as its principal points the complete overhauling of the Civil Services and the clearing out of "passengers" from theGovernment. It thisprograname were adopted, we should be in for a General Election. in the old manner of party warfare. So far as the war is ooncerued, there is no reason at all for holding a General Election. The longer it is postponed the better.
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