Evening star., 1924-11-02
VICTORY Of TORIES
HELD TOO GREAT
Have No One Else to Fight,
Will Quarrel Among Selves,
Chief Fear.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
By Radio to The Star.

BY Radio to The Star.
PARIS. November 1.-During the
war any unit that failed to reach its
objective in an attack might be for
given, but the unit which exceeded
it's objective was severely reprimand
ed. A similar situation now arises
in British politics, where the Con-
servativeS won more seats than they
expected. or hoped for, or desired.
When majorities are too large they
have nothing to fear from outside
attack and therefore they begin to
quarrel among themselves. This is
what the British Conservatives al
ready are fearing. The wiser heads
among them already are complaining
that their success is too complete
with practically two thirds of the
seats in the new House OF Commons.
Three Factions in Party.
Indeed, the British Conservative
party is not homogeneous Roughly
it consists of three factions: First.
those who always have opposed coal;-
tion with the Liberals ("die hards") ::
second, coalitionists who participat d
IN the Llo--d George government be-
fore and after the war and. third.
men like Winston Churchill. who al
ways have Eaen Liberals, but swung
10 the Conservative side because they
saw the Liberal party was bound to
disappear.
Reconciling these three groups and
building solid cabinet upon them
Is no easy matter. Already rumors
are heard that David Lloyd George,
although nomnally only leader (since
Herbert AsQuith's defeat) Of hand
full of Liberals, may yet become the
kingpin in the new Parliament. The
truth is the Conservatives are not
Ant n il !.
and are not confident of the stead
f&stness of the left wing Of their
party. which, as shown apove. con-
HiStS of CoalitioniStS and eX-Libera Is.
Mr.. Baldwin is regarded as too easy
going to hold these militant people
in line and maintain the party'S evil
dent prestige.
For whatever Ramsay Macdonald
did. everybody admits that he re-
awakened the spirit of democracy in
the British Isles. if democracy means
going to the polls. Never before have
so many people voted in England
The result plainly shows that Labor s
previous triumph was due mainly to
abStentionS.
No Real Opposition.
But how to hold the British public
In line and maintain its interest dur
ing the four or five years of life of
the present Parliament is the problem
that most worries the Conservatives
today and is the reason why they
regret that there is no real oppo-
stion.
Premier Herriots Withholding of
recognition of the Russian Soviets un-
til the eve of the British elections has
been the subject of many conjectures
obviously, # ii had been announced
few days earlier it might have helped
the British Laborites materially. The
writer today was given an explanation
which may well be the true one. 1t is
simply that NJ. Herriot felt certain
pque at Mr.. MacDonalds air of su-
periority. and particularly resented that
Mr.. Macdonald had invited Raymond
Poincare to CheQuerS, while he had re-
ceiVed NJ. Herriot only in the most for
NAL official manner.
Certainly it is true that the present
French government. at the beginning,
felt strong sentimental sympathy with
the British Labor government This
sympathy has since cooled, and Mr.
MacDonald's rather frosty manner may
well be the cause.
At all events, although in internal