21 AUGUST 1920, Page 2

Lord Robert Cecil forcibly reminded the House that it was

one thing to distrust the Government and another thing to suggest what was really a form of insurrection. If the Labour Party called a general strike, and the Government resisted, "that would mean fighting—it could mean nothing else." The Labour Party had no justification for taking such an ill-advised step, for there was no danger of the country being dragged into a sudden war. The Labour Party claimed to be fit to govern. " But if they once set aprecedent of Direct Action, they could net tell where it would lead, and, sooner or later,they and the a hole country would have to pay for it."