28 OCTOBER 1922, page 3

Last Week We Recorded The Bare Result Of The Carlton

Club meeting at which Mr. Chamberlain's proposal to continue the Coalition was decisively beaten. We had then had no opportunity of reading Mr. Bonar Law's speech. Now that we......

The League Of Nations, Mr. Lloyd George Continued, Could Not

serve its full purpose until America came in. Speaking of agriculture and industry he described, not so much his own policy as the policy which he hoped the Government would be......

On Wednesday Mr. Lloyd George Addressed The National...

in London. He was in a much more subdued mood than when he spoke at Leeds or when he told those excited crowds at railway stations that his sword was in his hand. By Wednesday......

Following The Liberal Programme Comes That Of The Labour...

issued on Thursday. By far the most important thing in it is the proposal for a capital levy on fortunes exceeding £5,000. The proposal is so injurious and so foolish—it was......

Lord Grey Of Fallodon, Speaking At Bradford On Tuesday, Said

that what Mr. Lloyd George regarded as " a crime against the nation," and Lord Balfour as " political insanity," he himself liked. Although the new Govern- ment was Conservative......

The Policy Of The Independent Liberals At The General...

has been published under ten headings, which we cannot do better than quote :- " 1. Peace and disarmament made secure through the League of Nations. 2. The prompt revision and......

As For The Relation Of National Liberals To The Die.

Hards—by whom he apparently meant Mr. Bonar Law's following—he repeated that he and his friends would not fight them unnecessarily. But if they themselves were challenged they......

Why Had The Reckless Act Of Breaking The Coalition Been

committed ? One reason had been to substitute Lord Salis- bury for Lord Balfour Mr. Bonar Law had spoken of tranquillity. He himself had preferred to speak of peace, but after......

Mr. Lloyd George Made His First Important Speech After His

resignation at Leeds last Saturday. Many of his followers hoped that he would make an explicit statement of policy. They must have been deeply disappointed. As in his various......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 980 ; Thursday week, 1001; a year ago, 87*.......