The Archive · 1925

Liberal Reconstruction

Meantime the Liberals have been meeting to consider ths causes of the great defeat. They have decided that it is due to faulty organization they are getting to work to Femodel_ all machinery in the constituencies and. put candidates for. ward in every electoral district. This sounds well aad will help, but any will never" vie. with ples and strong com the minds of the eletore Apart from the Zinovielf loiter the Conservatives would have done better. in any ease at the last election, but their majority very largely attributable to the anti-Bolshevik wave of feeling. Just now the Ministry have to decide (1) what they will do with the Russian Treaty, (2) what reply they will send Russia in reply. to. the Soviet protest on the Zinoviell publication and (2) whether, as the late Cabinet twas defeated on the Campbell case, they will now see that an inquiry ade ut tat ata for a holiday and by reason of his fr. Asquith has gone to' Egypt

defeat has taken all: men's sympa {hice with him. The small band of his followers ire trying to carry on and may be on. wiser lines. ven the "Daily News" has said som kind things about the Ministry, while Tr. "Thentus has had. sufficient counsel the avoidance of any jelass war and to suggest the ever growing need: that all sections of the community should pull together, fit may be that the result of this flection will do good to all parties and there is every indication that Bolshevism in the Labour Party is a discount.

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