21 OCTOBER 1922, Page 25

Sir George Younger and the Executive of the Unionisi Association

by their sudden act in summoning a full Unionist meeting had substantially decided the issue in advance. We attribute the result of the Carlton Club meeting largely to that act and to the unexpected and pleasing result of the Newport by-election. We had hoped that it might be possible to reconstruct the Ministry and for a Unionist Prime Minister to carry on for a few months ; but we admit that the rush of events at the last moment has made an early dissolution inevitable.