29 APRIL 1922, Page 3

The programme of the people in between, Lord Robert thinks,

-should include international co-operation, the recognition that Labour must have in some practical sense a voice in its own destiny, the scientific treatment of unemployment, reform of the Second Chamber, Proportional Representation, and the grant of the franchise to women on the same terms as to men. We very much doubt whether the overhauling of the House of Lords would work out as Lord Robert supposes. To make it in any considerable degree an elected Chamber, even though the elec- tion should be indirect, would be to make it a rival to the House of Commons. The House of Commons does not tolerate rivals. There would he endless trouble.