Anyway, the Conference wilh now be held, despite the prospect at one time that it would fall through, owing to America's abstention, and there is no doubt that the Prime Minister intends to achieve some practical result from it, since on this his reputation stands. If he could secure some really good European economic understanding, and then return to evolve a respectable Budget (now postponed until after Easter) he might conceivable think it worth while to go to the country. However, the date of the election is still far off and no one likes to prophesy even that it will be held this year. The House of Commons rises for the ten days' recess at Easter with the feeling that it deserves a holiday, but why on one knows, since it has done very little business except to pass some of the estimates and generally in minor matters make itself disagreeable to the Ministry as a whole.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.