12 JULY 1930, Page 2

If many bankers and business men in the City of

London disagree with the resolution it would not be unreasonable for them, now that the matter has gone so far, to express their contrary opinions with equal public force. It is very desirable that the public should be in- formed—should not be allowed to run away with the idea that because one side of the ease has been stated there is nothing to say on the other. Mr. Kiddy, in his interesting financial article in the Spectator this week, suggests that the present wave of anti-Free Trade opinion in the City is partly a reaction against Mr. Snowden's fanaticism. We can well believe it. Mr. Snowden keeps the Cabinet's financial conscience, and as a result the attempt to bring the Unionist Party into an all-Party Conference on unemployment was extremely