November 21.
Tae truce in British polities is at an end. On June 17 last the' Government, by inviting four members of the last Unionist' Ministry to meet in conference aa, equal number of the present Ministers,' gave "expression to the general, desire of the nation that King' George, immediately after his access! sion, should be spared at least that, part of the political crisis which threatened to prove embarrassing to. the Crowa. the Conference wee to be untrammelled by apy limitation of conditions, but the whole course, of its deliberations was to be reded as confidential., Thus, when, announcement is made that it has been dissolved without comin to any agreement, we are told that tha natare of the Conforenes procludes any disclosure in regard to" the course of the negotiations an the causes leading to their deter-' mination, Accordingly the only, knowledge that the public, has of this striking episode has' to be obtained by inference. 'It is, how-" ever, safe to assume that while the" deliberation turned, mainly on the' problem of the House of Lords and, its veto on legislation, they did not ignore altogether the question of Federal Home Rule, which suddenly acquired auch prominence in the political world. When the sub-" ject was being most eagerly can-' vassed the Conference with the idea, it is supposed, of allowing members time to make uj their own minds on a problem," which, although first raised a qnarter of a rand ago, was a new controversy. In spite of the, ex-development in the existing political' pectations formed of the prolonged, trace between the two parties, it Original f
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