Although we desire to support the Coalition Cabinet, however, and
-would sacrifice a great deal to keep it in office; we are not blind to the Posrson ABROAD ID. fact that the present situation has a good many difficulties, and that it behoves the Government to be vigilant. In our view, the first necessity of the situation is to keep the Government in being. We should like also to see it kept intact ; but if, as is quite possibly the case, this cannot be achieved without too great a sacrifice in the matter of carrying on the war with the maximum of efficiency, then we do not hesitate to say that it would be very much better to lose two or three of its anti-compulsionist members than to paralyse the Administration by an attempt to maintain an impossible com- promise. Clear, strong, well-considered action has always proved the Govern ment's safeguard in the past, and we arc convinced that it will prove so in the future.
