News of the Week
A General. Election AS we go to Press we have nothing but a surfeit of con- tradictory rumours on which to form any judgement of the immediate political future in this country. We give in a leading article our reasons for hoping that the impending General Election will not be thrust upon us this month or next. We want to get it over, and we have weighed the strongest reasons against delay. But at home we must not delay, hamper or distract the Indian Round Table Conference, which is doing work of untold importance for the future. Abroad there is ; political and financial opinion to be considered. Foreign fears for Great Britain were in great part the cause of the crisis of six weeks ago, and they must not be reawakened. If the foreigner sees this country united in settling down to bear the burdens demanded by the Government, perhaps his fears will recede. But that will take some weeks.
Until then any news-that the was jeopardiz- ing its existence by going to the country might turn a growing confidence into panic.
