4 JULY 1914, Page 11

Before we leave the subject we should like once more

to express our regret at the way in which the Opposition speakers have again and again allowed the Government to escape the crucial test in the Marconi question. The point which they should have put and pressed again and again on the " straight " members of the Government, who, we are glad to think, are still the majority, is this, They should have asked Mr. Asquith, Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Burns, Lord Haldane, Lord Morley, and Lord Crewe (to name only half a dozen) whether they would state that, if they had been placed in circumstances similar to those in which the three Marconi Ministers were placed, and granted also that they wanted to make an invest- ment, they would have acted exactly as the Ministers in question acted.