12 APRIL 1913, Page 3

We must note in this context the attempts to say

that the Spectator dare not state that the Unionists ought to take the line in regard to directorships which was taken by the Liberal Ministry when they entered office. People who write like that can never have read the Spectator articles on the directorship question. We hold that the self-denying ordinance for the resigning of directorships by Liberal Cabinet Ministers, if carried out as we presume it was, was thoroughly sound. If the good example was given, and is not followed by Unionists, they will not fail to earn our censure.