12 AUGUST 1911, page 1

As We Have Stated Elsewhere, We Are Not Going To

do the Unionist Party the ill service of indulging in recriminations. We shall, therefore, say as little as we can upon the whole subject. We must, however, express here as......

Before We Attempt Any Summary Of The Debate In The

House of Lords we desire to put on record the fact that the bulk of the Unionist peers who saved the situation were not Unionist Free Traders but Tariff Reformers. It was a mere......

Lord Cromer's Name Is Not To Be Found In The

list, solely from the fact that he was laid up by a sudden attack of gout. Though it was absolutely impossible for him to go to the House of Lords, there is no question that his......

But Though The Motives Of The Peers Were Above Suspicion,

we cannot commend the methods by which their supporters outside the House of Lords directed the campaign. There was a tendency to use intimidating language which cannot be too......

Splendid As Was The Self-sacrifice Shown By The Lords In

question, it would hardly have sufficed had not the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, supported by eleven Bishops, had the courage to resist the pressure put upon them to take......

Before We Leave The Subject Of The Division We Must

say something of the composition of the minority of 114 who followed Lord Halsbury. The list contains undoubtedly many honoured and distinguished names, such as those of the......

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News Of The Week.

W RITING last week when on the surface the pro- spects seemed very dark, we maintained our belief that the Parliament Bill would become law " without the added evil of the......