July 19
In a few days' time Parliament will go into recess. Whitehall will be freed of the distractions lof Westminster. It will be nearly two years since Ramsay MacDonald, then Labour Prime Minister, found he would have to reconstruct his adminis tration as a National Government. In due course the full history of that termination of ithe second Labour Government Iwill be written with sufficient detachment to enable judgment discriminate between Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Henderson. Just now, on either side, there is, too much prejudice for such a finding to be satisfactorily reached. The Prime Minister formed his temporary Nationat Government, won his General [Election but lost his own party in the process and reformed his Cabinet. With the notable exjeeption of the disappearance of Viscount Snowden and Sir Herbert Samuel, the latter taking ith him the Liberals of his Ark lof the Covenant, the Cabinet remains politically "unchanged. Te predominantly Conservative but more Liberal and Labour than the House of Commons itself, Although it cannot be Jdenied that the vote of the Elec: torate at the General Election Iwas a vote fora National Gov
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