Labour's Fissures
There was little of the " will ye no' come back again" air about the references to the Prime Minister and Lord Snowden at the various Labour meetings of last week-end, and it is clear that the breach between Mr. MacDonald and his former colleagues is as wide as ever. Lord Passfield's article in the Political Quarterly on the events of last August is not calculated to heal the breach, nor, in spite of its good intentions, is Mr. Clifford Allen's exposition (reviewed elsewhere in this issue) of the case for the Prime Minister. If Mr. MacDonald is em. barrassed, as he may or may not be, by the loss of a party, the party is very definitely the weaker for the loss of Mr. MacDonald. But unlooked-for political evolutions in the near future are possible—the rejuvenated Mr. Lloyd George being one far from negligible factor—and, in any ease, the Prime Minister, if he holds his place through the probable duration of this Parliament, may well feel his political ambitions satisfied.
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