The Prime Minister spoke in a holiday spirit on Easter
Monday at the Conference of the Independent Labour Party at York. He declared that to make a Cabinet was much more difficult than to make a revolution, and that if he " had a second shot " he would prefer anything to the responsibilities of forming a Cabinet. It only shows that you never know. Our own impression was that the Prime Minister had formed his Cabinet with consummate ease. At all events there were none of the usual excur- sions and alarms which accompany Cabinet-making, nor were there the usual expressions of disappointment and injured pride. We fancied that Mr. MacDonald, so to speak, dictated the list of his Cabinet, and that there was an end of it. It certainly had all the appearance of having been carefully thought out beforehand. What we liked least in the speech was Mr. MacDonald's demand that his Government should be known by no other name than the " Labour Government," and what we liked best was his tribute to the Civil Service.
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