The Times of Tuesday announced that Lord Murray is expected
to arrive in England in a few weeks. No doubt when he returns he will not fail to see the propriety of answering (whether by means of a libel action or otherwise) the charges that have been brought against him as admini- strator of the Liberal Party funds when he was Chief Whip. He not only invested party funds in American Marconi shares —that, of course, is admitted—although the Government were in contractual relations with the British Marconi Company, with which the American Company is associated, but invested (according to the National Review) large sums in English railway companies at the moment when the Government were engaged in settling the railway strike. When Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs made their personal statements in the House of Commons about their transactions in American Marconi shares, Lord Murray was away. An explanation is therefore due from him on all these points to the country and to his party. We need not insist that it is his plain duty to offer one, as we assume that be will take the right course. It is, we feel sure, unnecessary to remind him that any peer can ask the leave of the House of Lords to make a personal statement. Such a statement from Lord Murray would be heard with care, attention, and interest.
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