22 OCTOBER 1910, Page 2

Mr. Churchill goes on to say that be sees "

no sufficient reason why the fact that we are now forced for a time to dwell under the shadow of exceptional Estimates should delay the establishment of a general system of national insurance against unemployment, sickness, and invalidity," or, on the other hand, " why it should disturb with fresh taxation the great social and financial settlement which the Budget has achieved." If this does not mean that Mr. Winston Churchill is looking towards a naval loan, it is difficult to say what it does mean. It is, as a rule, a mistake to accept stories of Cabinet differences because of discrepancies between the public utterances of Ministers, but we are bound to say that on this occasion the conflict of ideas does seem to be very strongly marked.