The Morning Post of Friday, November 29th; with a courage
and public spirit which deserve the gratitude of all men who care for the honour of their country, deals (for the second time) with the rumour that Lord Reading is to be one of the British representatives at. the Peace Conference :—
" A study of the Ministerial Press discloses the fact that the Government still has the intention, unless public opinion asserts itself to name Lord Reading as one of the British representatives at the Peace Conference in Paris. It is, therefore,timely that public opinion should be heard ; for no act on the part of the Government could well be more repugnant to proper feeling. The act of oblivion by which unscrupulous partisanship has endeavoured to extinguish the record. of the Marconi transaction has no force or sanction. It is not forgotten—and least of all on such an occasion as the sum- moning of a Peace Conference to establish a new and better order in the- worldL–that Lord Reading was the principal figure in the discreditable Marconi ecandaL We have no wish to rake up the past vindictively ; but at this Conference, surely., it is a duty to demand that this country, appearing as the champion of the highest causes, should not be unworthily represented. Yet, if representatives are to be chosen from outside the ranks of politicians, there are few open to graver exception in one respect than Lord Reading. On his appointment to the Chief Justiceship, after the revelations in the Marconi Inquiry—an appointment in which the Liberal Party disclosed their contempt for anything but Party interest—we entered our protest. When Lord Reading was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the United States we protested again, no lees vigorously ; and against his appointment as British delegate to the Peace Conference we shall protest with all our vehemence."
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