26 NOVEMBER 1921, Page 2

Mr. Chamberlain, addressing the Unionist delegates at Liver- pool in

the evening, after their Conference, begged them to be patient and to trust to their leaders. Tho Coalition was a temporary expedient. " Sooner rather than later " it must dissolve or give place to " a new party, constitutional, democratic and national." He could not speak of the Irish Conference, but he maintained that the Government were right in trying to make peace " with honour and without broken pledges." He declared that no British Government could barter away the allegiance of British subjects or portions of the Empire, or deprive us of " the ports, harbours and seaways necessary for the life of our nations," or coerce Ulster. He said that his father would have seized the chance of making peace by offering Dominion status." Ho himself regretted the vote that he gave against the Liberal Ministry's grant of full self-government to tho Boers. The " kept " Press talks about the " rout of lo Die-hards," but the simple truth is that the minority called the would-be pledge breakers to order and did invaluable work at Liverpool.