We should like to write with great sympathy of Mr.
Henderson's resignation. He has been a most loyal and industOlous supporter of the Government in their conduct of the war, and all who have learned to admire his honourable behaviour will regret the necessity of his leaving the Government. But these facts cannot prevent us from saving that his explanation in the House of Commons was a nebulous and unconvincing affair. We may pass over all the personal details which he thought proved that he had been treated with insufficient consideration. They may all bo true, but they do not touch the heart of the matter. The vital point is that after the Cabinet discussion which preceded the Labour Party Conference, the eighepersons who had engaged with Mr. Henderson in conversation were under the impression that be was going to invite the Labour Party to have nothing to do with theStockholm Conference. He explained-to the House that he thought he had made his position plain, but the unfortunate fact was that there were eight witnesses against him.
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