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It is interesting to remember now that in 1921 Mr.

Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, resented the attempt of distinguished Churchmen to intervene in . the coal dispute. He said that their " interference " was " replete with mischief." He has written much in his letter about Liberal principles, but has omitted to give proper weight to the conviction of his colleagues that there is no Liberal principle which can compare in importance with the duty of preserving the Constitution. Lord ASquitb Lord Grey of Fallodon worked solely for that. They could not tolerate any temporizing on that question. They saw the hollowness of the argument that the strike was " purely industrial," for if the T.U.C. had won the authority of the Government would have passed auto- matically to that oligarchy.

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