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On Monday in the House of Commons the Govern- ment

had at once to face a determined 'attriek upon its Indemnity Bill. - Mr. Bridgernan defended the action he had taken in deporting men and 'women to the Free State on the ground that the conspiracy was a -very dangerous one, and that he-would have been a coward if he had not protected the State. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had, of course, an easy brief to speak to in denouncing the Horhe Secretary for' having overridden the law. He delivered what he meant i• be a castigation of Mr. Bridgeman for his irresponsibilty, but it was less effective than Mr. Lloyd George's subtler line of argument that conspiracies must undoubtedly be stamped out, though not by the particular method Mr. Bridgeman had chosen.

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