Last week we did not do more than mention, as
we were going to press, the opening of Parliament. The Address was moved by Captain Brass, who won a notable Unionist victory at Clitheroe, and was seconded by Mr. Margesson. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who has evidently lost nothing in Parliamentary art by his absence from the House, made a good beginning as the Leader of the Opposition. He made it plain that in the coming session Labour would attach a primary importance to the problem of unemployment—a natural choice of terrain on which Mr. Bonar Law has already shown himself not only willing but anxious to meet the representatives of Labour. Mr. Bonar Law pointed out that the express purpose for which Parliament had been summoned to this session was to pass the Irish Treaty. The nation -was determined, he said, to give the Treaty "a fair trial in spirit and in letter."
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