News of the Week
Political Confusion THE political equipoise which resulted from the arrangement between the Liberals and the Govern- ment has been badlyupset, and when we write on Thursday it seems as likely as not that the arrangement will cease to exist. This must mean a " crisis " of a sort, though it must not be ,supposed that if the Government should be defeated shortly after We have gone to press on the vital clause of their Trade Disputes Bill they will suddenly throw' in their hand. There need be no collapse. One of the most noticeable facts about the Government in their present temper is that they regard any rebuff as preferable to resignation. We have discussed in a leading article the influences which seem to account for the present strange situation. Here we must turn to the very interesting affairs of the Standing Committee on the Trade Disputes Bill. * *
