NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE scene is already set for the ourious debate next Monday in which Mr. Lloyd George will demand a vote of con- fidence from the House in connexion with the C-enoa Conference. Whether Mr. Lloyd George will have another " great Parlia- mentary success " or whether he will be tripped up by some rival strategist we do not know. The only certain thing is that the vote of confidence debate is a strange way out of his diffi- culties. The political crisis began when he tried to call to order the discontented Unionists headed by Sir George Younger, and now Mr. Lloyd George's solution turns out to be not the satis- faction or the suppression of the malcontent Unionists but an appeal to the whole House on a subject on which Mr. Lloyd George has never met with any serious resistance. In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain read out the resolution which Mr. Lloyd George will move on Monday:— " That this House approves the resolution passed by the Supreme Council at Cannes as the basis of the Genoa Conference and will support His Majesty's Government in endeavouring to
: give effect to it."
