able that the Executive Committee of the National Union of
Conservative Associations should be submitting a resolution to their forthcoming party conference deprecating criticism " designed to undermine the authority of the Government." The implied suggestion is, of course, that criticism of the present Government has been overdone. If this resolution is carried, it is far more likely to exacerbate feeling between the various parties than to promote appeasement. Opposi- tion members feel, and with some reason, that they have made considerable sacrifices. They have consented to the electoral truce and thus made it impossible to add to their own numbers. They have given a swift and easy passage to nearly all wartime legislation. They have not sought to pick any unnecessary quarrels with Ministers, but have confined themselves to raising genuine and widely-felt grievances, the existence of which is undisputed. After all this they are naturally resentful when it is suggested that they have made avoidable trouble or shown themselves lacking in public spirit.
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