. The papers of last Saturday published a long letter
from
• Lord Robert Cecil to the Chairman of the Hitcliin Unionist .Association, which was in effect a political manifesto. Lord _Robert Cecil begins_ by pointing out how many of the old Party problems have been swept away by the War, and he then goes on to discuss the principles which ought to guide men of modera- tion in the coining-years. As a moral survey of the situation the letter seems to us admirable. Lord Robert Cecil has that -Left-Centre mind which is characteristic of the British people. He thinks it is high time for those to get together who dislike both the narrowness of reactionaries—men who believe that there is no opening for a new order in the world, but that force and a Balance of Power must still rule—and the narrowness of the revolutionaries, who also believe in force. " It is both dangerous and absurd to leave the two sets 9f extremists in possession of the field."
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