The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-18
B0NAR LAW IS
 HOLDING REINS
 OF GOVERNMENT
By Earle O. Reeves, News Service Staff

1 Correspondent
 l London, Oct. 16.-Two significant | things stand out in the political situa- l ton of Britain today that are, per- maps, important enough to penetrate l even the frenzy of political talk in which America. is fevelling at the mo- 1 ment.
 picion abroad, voiced without 1 equivocation by some, that Lloyd ] i George, after a career that, is al-
 most a miracle, has finally lost 1 command of his Government. 1 That Bonar Law, the leader of
 the Unionist party, and behind
 him, Sir Edward Carson, of Ul- 1 ster, Ireland, hold the reins. | Second-There is talk of an- other general election, another ] appeal to the country. in the air. 1 Result of MacSwiney Case. i In simple form, the first situation 1 is the result of the MacSwiney case and of the wrongs of the so-called coercion bill in Ireland. The story the men on the ground, agreed to at tempt operation of the restoration of order bill on condition that they have absolute power, without interference from Downing street. The hunger | strike cases made the issue interna- tional in its appeal. Lloyd George sounded compromise keynote in Switzerland, then hastened home to
 
 hunger strikers. Once here he ran into the promise he had given the government of Ireland. For two days he struggled, then was faced by a flat ultimatum that if he released the hunger strikers his Irish Government would resign and make no further at tempts at operating the restoration crash. Under pressure he signed an unequivocal pledge to carry out the law and let the hunger strikers die. Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson take over the real control of the government at that moment?
 The next day officials of the Irish and said: We've got him now.' And Sir Hamar Greenwood, the Irish Sec retary runs with Bonar Law. Election Rumors.
 As to the general election: A week ly political journal was the first to sound the warning. Its version was that Lloyd George planned to stand pat in opposition to relaxing vigil lance in Ireland, and oppose to the last ditch the miners strike agitation as revolutionary then at the critical mo- ment issue call for general elec- t1on and go before the country on law and order platform-mainte- nance of order in Ireland, and the de- feat of all reddish or radical labor moves at home.
 Since the MacSwiney episode the tune of the general election talk has cnanged apparently. For months it has been no secret that the banking and propertied class had held that the way to save England from Soviet 1zlnS influences is to go to the mat with labor at once, and once and for all. The success of the Unionist or "Conservative'' or ''Tory" element in getting a Strang1e hold on the Premier in the matter of the hunger strikers mas resulted in a new interpretation Of general election talk. In this the Star, an opposition paper leads with the assertion that the Tory gov ernment heads plans to let the coal miners fight their way forward to a Str1ke, Which, with it's accon1panying inconvenience for the middle classes and unemp mployment for the working classes, is bound to be unpopular and then confront the nation with a choice between an opposition, of which la DOT Is strong part, and a govern ment which wants peace and pros per1ty in domestic affairs. To this end declares the Star, the Unionist or Tory leaders are already quietly assem- out poster and publicity campaigns.
 Await Ripe "Occasion.''
 The pot is boiling over. Events will show what will develop, for the gov ernment must have a ripe occasion for throwing the nation into the dis face unpopularity itself
 In an election on such issues Lloyd George would be returned. Again an 1f. He would be picked to head the ticket and would be returned if the n-behind-the-scenes thought Lord E. Smith, and of some fame in Ulster to be not yet ripe for the Premier ship. He is being trained for that post.