Sir George Younger on Wednesday supplemented. Mr. Chain-. berIain's speech.
He told the .womeres branch of the National Unionist Association-that -the Coalition as such- need not exist after the next election: "I do not. think Mr. Chamberlain made-the position quite clear," he said ; ." I do not contemplate an alliance—I contemplate a sort of co-operation." He referred to the- Coalition as :a matrimonial alliance which he would end by a bill of divorcement,. amicably . arranged, The :Unionists and Mr. Lloyd George's party. would make separate appeals to the electors, as the Conservatives -and the Liberal Unionists. did a generation-ago. The two sections would, he -hoped, be- able to -work in harmony; The Unionist Party -must :recover their individuality, but - it . wouki be a: shabby thing:to turn- their .friends adrift, "so long. as they -were willing, to go with, them , in a policy which . they considered. best." To put it plainly,. Sir George- Younger-conceives that the Unionist Party, and not the Lloyd George Liberals, will -call the tune, while there is " sort of co-operation " between them. This is very significant and we shall hear more of it.
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