Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-21

EVENTS OF A WEEK.
No other political event i'll recent years has
been observed with interest comparable totthat
aroused by the collapse Of the coalition administra-
ton in Great Britain, with the resignation of Pre-
mier Lloyd George and the members of his cabinet.
The condition into which the British political situa-
ton had drifted was SO chaotic that almost anything
might be expected, and whatever occurred was
bound to have elements of the sensational.
With the %retirfment of the Lloyd George; ad-
ministration there 1anishes the last of the war cab
inets Of the major Allied nations. Progressing from
a place in the Asquith ministry early in the war to
the first place in the British empire, from which his
chief was forced into retirement, Lloyd George has
for six years presided over as motley a political
group as was ever collected under one leadership,
and the administrations of which he was the head has
eutlasted three French administrations, several
italian, and the Wilson administration in the United
States, which expired by constitutional limitation,
and vas not renewed. A. ar ~
together his group Of Liberals, Conservatives and
Labor party men through the storm and stress, of
war, through the negotiations of peace, through the
complications of an Irish situation which reached an
acute phase about the time he assumed office, (Which
for a long time presented a problem which seemed
insoluble, and which grew in gravity, but out of
which have come conditions which bid fair to re-
store peace and promote progress in the Emerald
isle. He has had to deal with the domestic prob
lens which grew out of the war. with its legacy Of
enormous debt, demoralized industries, unemRIoy-
Ilent, and consequent popular discomfort. j And all
the time the Eastern problem has doomed, dark and
foreboding, until, with lightning flashes and onli-
nous rumblings, it has threatened to break uponythe
world, a devastating tempest.
The particular incident which forced the resig-
nation: of Lloyd George was the decision of the Con-
servative members of the House of Commons vir-
tually to withdraw from support of the coalition,
and to go before the country in the approaching
election campaign organized on the old party lines.
With this detection it was impossible for the ad-
minstration to continue, and the premier rendered
his resignation to the king, with the recommended
ton that Andrew Bonar Law, the conservative lead
lei, be invited to organize a new cabinet. This COM
mission has been rendered and accepted, and Bonar
law IS now selecting his cabinet timber.
The effect Of these developments will be. to
hasten the dissolution of parliament and a general
appeal to the country. What form the campaign
Will take nobody pretends to know. The one thing
certain is that Lloyd George will fight. Whether
alNte will seek reinstatement as the leader Of the Lib
8se1al party, or will undertake the creation, Of a new
party, with the backing of several of his former
coalition associates, or will strike out on entirely
new lines, which he Us quite capable of doing, is yet
sto appear. but It Is quite certain that the British
ssptblic has in immediate prospect one Of the most
snilnated campaigns that It has ever experienced.
The French press is inclined to consider the
ssdOwnfall of Lloyd George a triumph Of French di-
AaffBgDInacy, although there is some uncertainty asttc
SSMsthat new administration may bring forth. Il ap.
s|sp@eeafsS that the most critical phase of the Hurkish sit
sMslltion has passed. The decision Of all the Allies
81 permit the Kemalist forces to pass through
a3onstantinople on their way to Thrace gave eyi-
snncce sof Allied unity which did not encourage tile
ffssshl nationalis leader 70 press his demand sfor