NEWS OF THE WEEK
MR. CHURCHILL'S speech about the coal dispute in the House Of Commons on Tuesday was in a new key. It might have been spoken by the Prime Minister. It was forthcoming and helpful and was notable for Mr. Churchill's steady and unusual refusal to make use of the numerous bright and clever debating points with which the debate presented him. The meeting of the Miners' delegates, at which it is hoped some policy will emerge, will take place on Thursday after we have gone to press. We earnestly hope that the miners will respond to Mr. Churchill's appeal that they should produce something which will make a basis of negotiations. There is clearly an opportunity of peace, and the vicissitudes of the dispute have brought it about that in spite of the mistakes which have been committed by all sides. in _the past the responsibility of ensuing peace or spurning it rests inunediately upon the miners. Public patience would be tried past endurance if the miners deliberately said "We prefer war to peace."
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