14 FEBRUARY 1920, page 1

In The Last Session The House Of Lords Saved The

House of Commons from itself several times, notably in the case of the stupidly severe Aliens Bill. What we should like to see is the preservation of the present system of the......

The Chief Observation Which We Wish To Make On This

subject is that here is an open gate for the Unionists. It can hardly be supposed that if the nation wants to be led against bureaucracy and Socialism, of both of which it is......

There Is Now The Greatest And Best Of All The

opportunities we have had of freeing the country from the abuse of drink without incurring the innumerable difficulties and disadvantages of Prohibition. We certainly ought to......

Of Course Mr. Lloyd George Will Try To Form A

new anti- Socialistic party and to lead it. But the nation will think more than twice before being sure that he would lead it in earnest. It cannot forget the circumstances in......

We Are Very Glad To See That Liquor Control Is

given prominence in the King's Speech. We earnestly hope that the reform will follow the lines of the only experiment in Liquor Control which has proved an unqualified success ;......

To Sum Up These General Remarks (xi The Opening Of

Parlia- ment, we cannot help exclaiming : " If words were deeds. What a glorious country this would be with such a Prime Minister ! " But, alas ! the political rainbow, the most......

We Can Hardly Suppose That Parliament Will Ever Reach The

proposed Bill to reform the House of Lords, but we hope that if the Bill is produced it will not attempt the folly of setting up an Upper House that would be a rival to the......

If We Were To Judge By Language Alone, And Were

able to forget for the time being that political language must be related to deeds, we could not praise too highly the speeches which the Prime Minister made on Tuesday about......

News Of The Week.

p ARLIAMENT was reopened on Tuesday, and the Prime Minister has surpassed his record in the House of Commons. We have written elsewhere about the state of political parties and......

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