News of the Week rr HE Liberal Party Conference follows on
the Unionist and Labour Conferences. Shortly after these words are published we may know Mr. Lloyd George's answers to many interesting questions. Much the most interesting is what the Liberal and Labour Parties will do if the General Election should give no Party a working majority. Obviously Mr. Lloyd George hopes to hold the balance as the Irish Nationalists used to hold it and to be able to impose terms of some sort upon Labour. Will Labour and the Liberals somehow come together ? The hatred of Liberalism which the Labour Party habitually expresses need not be taken very seriously. Nobody supposes that the Labour Party, particularly as it has now committed itself to the stately progress of a normal evolution towards Socialism, would refuse indefinitely the co-operation of Liberals if the alternative were -the wilderness.
