Liberal Re-union
Sir Archibald Sinclair's announcement to his followers assembled in conference that Mr. Ernest Brown and he are to discuss the re-union of the Liberal party, will be widely welcomed by all who recognise the values still attaching to that party in its eclipse. Looking backward and asking what brought it low, the historian may probably find the chief, though not the only, cause ,in the short-sighted discussions, largely personal, which not once but repeatedly disrupted its ranks. Re-union alone will not save it, yet it is the first and indispensable step. One is bound in the same breath to admit that a resolution passed by the conference itself at its closing meeting shows the disruptive spirit still very much ,alive—the resolution which banned without qualification any Liberal participation in a coalition after the war. Sir Archibald Sinclair hastened to remind the conference (which had•here flouted its own executive) that the vote had no binding force. Liberal Ministers would, when the time came, decide their course, having regard to the details of the situation then presenting itself and the opinion formed of them by the Liberal Parliamentary party. That is common sense.'
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