THE LIBERAL PARTY
SIR,—Yes, your correspondent "B. T. W." is right in saying we Liberals strongly dislike to be called left wing Conservatives or right wing Socialists—for we are neither. I remember, a long while ago now, honest John Morley (later Viscount Morley) saying to me during a Newcastle-on-Tyne parliamentary election: "Liberalism is a halfway house between reactionary Toryism and revolutionary Labour "—how true—and then supplemented this remark by wisely adding: "Truth is generally midway between two opposing points of view, and that is Liberalism."
Liberalism is the political leaven which leaveneth the whole; in fact, many far-seeing politicians believe that after the war the electors will soon ask the Liberals to form a Government, with a revival that would carry on the great and glorious traditions of Liberal past days. Meanwhile let us
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