ABSTRACT
The Tory Party, in the course of absorbing the doubtful or angry Liberal, had acquired another alias–it was also the Unionist Party. If Parliament utterly changed its character before the pre-war, and threatened to destroy itself by putting off those decencies which had hitherto preserved it from complete reality–that was due to Tory violence and Liberal weakness. The really sinister intentions of the Tory Party revealed themselves on January 26, about a fortnight before Mr. Winston Churchill’s seriocomic excursion to Belfast. The Tory philosophy, up to the beginning of the War, might be summed up in this way: be Conservative about good things, and radical about bad things. As the Tory rebellion proceeded from Craigavon on to Balmoral, and from Balmoral on to Blenheim, it seemed that they had nothing to oppose to it but the highly literate wrath of their printed words.
