5 AUGUST 1922, Page 2

Lord Salisbury, in acknowledging the receipt- of the fund collected

by the Morning Post in. its campaign against the anti-Conservative, anti-Unionist, anti-Thrift acts of the Coalition, made some very sensible remarks. They show that we did not misjudge his policy when we described him as essenti- ally a Left-Centre man, but at the same time a convinced up- holder of the Democratic State. After pointing out that heffid net see eye to eye with.the-Morning Post, and that be did not hold "extreme Conservative opinions," Lord Salisbury went on to declare that his object was not to break up the Conservative Party but to reunite it and restore its credit.