And hero we should like to note a point of
special importance. We are not partioular admirers of our party system, and have always insisted that the antiseptio of party is the willingness of men to leave the party on essential issues. At the same time, we know that party must 'exist as part of the mechanism of democratic, or indeed of any, Government, and we recognize also that there must be party discipline. It is because Mr. Bonar Law sees this as clearly as any man, and yet was willing to enter into the Coalition, and still more to maintain it, that he deserves •the thanks of the nation. We believe that he was using no rhetorical device when he told the House of Commons that he and his Unionist colleagues were quite aware that they were imperilling their political careers by joining the Coalition.
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