" For every little Liberal That's born into this world
alive Is either a little National Or a little bee from the Sinclair hive."
That is what (or perhaps something even better) Sir W. S. Gilbert would have had to write today. But somehow or other I don't think he would have to write it in a year or two's time, for I question whether there will be many Liberal Nationals to write about by that time. Most of them will be absorbed by then in the Conservative Party ; whether that involves a rightward or a leftward move seems to be matter of dispute. The correspondence between the leaders reveals more than a touch of disingenuousness. When Mr. Ernest Brown suggests that the Sinclair Liberals have declared against a post-war coalition he seems to have taken leave of facts, and when he states that National Liberals will not oppose Conserva- tives he omits to mention what I presume is the case, that as quid
pro quo Conservatives will not oppose National Liberals. ' * * * *
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