If Captain Wedgwood Benn spoke for the majority of the
forty Liberal members the end of Mr. Lloyd George's great influence in the party would be within sight, but it seems that Mr. Lloyd George's followers have a slight majority. Perhaps the coming Liberal Convention will throw more light on the subject. According to the Westminster Gazette the chief subjects with which the Convention will deal are : placing of a Liberal candidate in every constituency ; raising an adequate fund on a democratic basis ; a joint declaration of policy by Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George. In the Daily Chronicle of last Saturday there was an article by Mr. Lloyd George himself. The sense of it was that there must be " no proscriptions " within the party and that unity was essential. That is all very true and all very well, but it comes from the one man who seems to nearly half the Liberal Party to make unity impossible. * * * *
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