NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE vote of want of confidence in the Coalition Government, moved on Wednesday night by Sir William Joynsen- Hicks, led to a brisk debate. His essential point was that Mr. Lloyd George was a Liberal, and therefore not fit to lead the Conservative Party, except during a national crisis, when all Party lines were temporarily obliterated. Major Lloyd George, the Prime Minister's son, speaking only last Saturday, said that his father was applying liberal principles to his rolicy and was as good a Liberal now as when he first eat in Parliament. He did not quarrel with that view, but he objected to the applica- tion of Liberal principles to a Government of which he was a supporter. Sir William gave another proof of his contention in the recent meeting of the Liberal supporters of Mr. Lloyd George, in which they acclaimed their Liberalism. The real object which the Conservative Party should have was that the division between Parties should be perpendicular, not horizontal. After censuring the Colonial Secretary and the Lord Chancellor for their violent attacks on the Labour Party and the Labour leaders, he insisted that the remedy for our present evils was the revival of the Conservative Party. He ended by an appeal to his leaders in the Cabinet to come out and lead the Conservative Party, which was the greatest instrument for political good -which the country had ever known.
