The sense of Mr. Lloyd George's letter in reply was
that throughout he had been faithful to Liberal principles, and that all he had said during the strike had been implicit in his Cambridge speech, which had been praised by his Liberal colleagues at the meeting of May 8rd. He could not understand why men who had denounced a "fight to a finish during the Boer War and the Great War should have adopted a die-hard policy in the strike. He then defended his American article and insisted that- he was right in saying that the industrial struggle would be prolonged " unless Parliament took a hand." He remained of that opinion because it was obvious that the industrial struggle was not over. Finally lie demanded to know, if there was to be another schism in the Liberal Party, what it was about. " Is it on a question of policy ? If so, what ? " * * *
