THE LIBERAL PARTY
Sra,—" Janus" in " A Spectator's Notebook " last week produces the astonishing suggestion that there is no future for the Liberal Party because " the country as a whole is so Liberal. The Conservatives have no objection to including an almost Liberal left wing, or the Labour Party to an almost Liberal right." That is as maybe. The fact remains that at least until the advent of the war, both these two parties were very careful to keep any of their members with Liberal tendencies (by which are not meant Simonite tendencies) well in the background.
But in any case, Liberals strongly object to having their faith regarded rather as " Left-wing Conservatism " or "Right-wing Socialism." The people of this country are learning from the experience of twenty devastating years that Liberalism is a social, an economic, and a foreign policy, far, far different from enlightened Toryism or modified Socialism. Anyone who discusses political problems with youth today can have no
doubts upon that score.—Yours faithfully, B. T. W.
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