28 OCTOBER 1922, Page 3

As for the relation of National Liberals to the Die.

Hards—by whom he apparently meant Mr. Bonar Law's following—he repeated that he and his friends would not fight them unnecessarily. But if they themselves were challenged they would fall fighting and hit as hard as ever they could. " I say this after considerable reflection and with full knowledge of the support we shall get." Although he did not regard Mr. Bonar Law as " a re- actionary," there was always a danger. The Conserva- tives, like the Labour Party, had " a fanatical tail," and he did not regard Lord Curzon " as a bulwark against reaction or against anything else."