Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-23
WAR PUTSDAMPE
!! ON PARTY CONFLICT
Bitterness of a Year Ago Is No
Longer Apparent in
England.
LIBERALS GET SUPPORT
OF CONSERVATIVE CHIEFS
Even Suffragettes Have Laid Aside
Hatchet in Empires Hour
of Trial.
o--e.,,ndenrc Of thc Associated r-rss

Correspondence Of thc Associated F-css
LONDON April at IS only at rare
intervals nowadays that partisan poli-
tics appear to cause even a r!ppe IN
England and the leading conserra
tiyes, like a J Balfour and \. Bonar
Law are working enthusiastically with
the liberals in the prosecution OF the war
and the many issues Of "a islng revenue,
adjusting trade to war conditions ana the
countless other problems of the period
Even the chancellor of the exchequer,
David LLOYD George, who year ago was
viewed with alarm if not contempt IN
many conservative quarters. IS daily
meeting the leaders of financial and COM
mercial enterprises and receiving their
hearty cooperation.
Yesterday Herbert H. Asauith passed
his seventh anniversary as prime minister
and in a fortnight he viii have eauaied
in length of tenure Lord Salisburys term
To Continue in Office.
Though the act passed by parliament
in 1911 would require general eiecton
during the year of 1915. it is accepted as
proper in all party circles that the term
Of the present members be extended ana
there will be no considersh BILE opposition
TO any extension that the cabinet ma
recommend whether il be ti'i the emo o.
the war set term OF one or even
two years. There is no desire nanl1eS'
ed in any quarter for an election during
the war.
Discussion of suffrage and Irish home
rule has virtually disappeared IL o'i.
the papers. though it is evident that q,
the close of the war both issues VIII
be revived. One hears much OF cor
ficting character as to the progress
of recruiting in Ireland. out II - W
deniable that Sir Edward Carson ana
John Redmond are NholeheartedlS en-
deavoring to urge their respective ,ol-
iowings TO join the colors. Even Mrs,
Pankhurst has buried the hatcnet. anu
there has not been the slightest mani
festation of militant attack anywhere
in England since the war started
Obscure in Retirement.
One interesting phase of the political
situation that is impressive Is the
silence of the members of the govern
ment who resigned at the outbreak OF
the war Viscount Morley. c. F. TreVel-
yam and John Burns, respectively fora
president of the council, parliamentary
secretary to the board of education
and president OIL the board OF trade;
we're three important and influential
figures in British politics d year ago.
Now as if by agreement their names
are never heard, and they themselves
never break the silence that surrounds
them They are as if dead, or at least
somnolent.
The conservative press has at times
vigorously denounced the government
for its censorship of news as to the
war: called il inefficient in its recruit
ing methods and belabored it for fall
ing. as it claims. to grasp the full
sense of its responsibilities. At one
time two or three of the London papers
directed their attack along these lines
toward the prime minister. asserting
that he was not alive to the serious
ness of the crisis, that consumption
was inevitable and should be prepared
for long in advance, that the cry of in
efficiency in the manufacture of arms
and ammunition was the natural out
come of the shortsightedness of sleepy
government and that too many of the
shortcomings of the liberal ministers
were being shifted to the broad back
of Lord Kitchener. But after few
DAYS this criticism stopped and has
not reappeared-
Truce Among the Parties.
In short, It is truce among parties
In England. truce generally respect
ed by all factions. In private CONVEX
sation the opposition representatives
claim a full share of the credit for the
progress of the war. 1t is not human.
or. IT least. political practice, to claim
a share III its failures. The Conserva-
tryes are inclined to point out tina
old age pensions, free medical advice.
public insurance and the other proud
monuments of the liberal gry-rnrne nj
have not stimulated patriotism. but
the berals answer that fhe largest
volunteer army the world ever saw has
gone into the field. and the financial
burdens of the war, unprecedented in
proportion since the records of budget s
were first prepared. are eagerly as