If this is not always done the Government will be
in danger of being accused with some reason of " doping " those papers on which they depend for support. That there was no sinister motive in the Government's use of publicity is proved by the fact that the Morning Post also failed to receive the information. Publicity is the cure for all underground plottings ; and it is the only fair course, because publicity knows no favourites. It simply presents the facts by which men and their actions can be judged. But how wonderful is Labour in some of its manifestations ! It is eternally demanding publicity in diplomacy and everywhere else, but when Mr. Bonar Law uses publicity as his weapon the Labour Members of Parliament instantly try to strike it out of his hand. The only thing wrong with Mr. Bonar Law's method, we repeat, was that it was not fully carried out. That was not his personal fault.
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