The papers of last Saturday published the letter in which
Mr. Churchill resigned from the Cabinet. In this letter to Mr. Asquith Mr. Churchill points out that when he left the Admiralty be accepted the light duties. of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to take part in the work of the War Council, His counsels, he say; are on record in the Memoranda he circulated to the Cabinet. When a smaller War Council became necessary Mr. Asquith intended to include him in it But since he had been excluded, " my work in. the Govern.- ment," he says,. "comes naturally to a dose. . I could not accept a position of general responsibility for war policy with- out any effective share in its guidance and control." We note, however, that he was quite willing to take decisions on behalf of other members of the Cabinet which they would have had no effective allure in controlling. Mr. Churchill also announced that he felt unable to remain in well-paid inactivity and that he was ready to rejoin his regiment. He ended by saying that time would assign him his "due share• in the vast series of preparations and operations 'which have secured us the command of the see."'
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