30 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 2

He definitely bound himself to resist the treatment of the

Welsh Church, and the fact that the Coalition have promised better financial treatment for the Welsh Church than the Act provides by no means releases Lord Robert Cecil from his pledgee. In these days when resignation has quite gone out of fashion, and members of a Ministry are content to give one another away or to eat their own words, we cannot express too strong an admiration for Lord Robert Cecil's conduct. He was bred in a great school of states- manship which scrupulously recognized the responsibility of politicians; by maintaining the tradition he sets a. fine example.