The Prime Minister's misapprehension of the meaning of the Labour
Government's defeat by the Referendum in Australia is concisely and completely exposed in the letter from "An Australian in London" in Tuesday's Times :— " That Government came into power a year ago with very definite mandates from the electors. In dealing with one or two of them—with the New Protection among others—Mr. Fisher's Cabinet thought it good tactics to ask for powers far beyond the actual needs of the situation ; and the electors have been able, by their adverse vote on April 26th, to intimate to the Cabinet that they do not desire to amplify its jurisdiction so excessively. But the mandates still hold good ; the Government still represents, more nearly than any other Government could, the wishes of the majority of Australians. It can take the hint, and go on with its work. That is the beauty of a Referendum."
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