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The_really interesting thing is what has happened to the wo- men's vote. It is beyond dispute that at Oxford a week or two Notice To Contributora.
ago the vast majority of women All communications intended for voters were solidly behind Mr. publication should be addressed to Chamberlain. That was what The Editor, and be accompanied by really won the Oxford by-election the Writer's Name and Address, for the Government. It is also not necessarily for insertion but as beyond dispute that a few days n guarantee of good faith.
Jago Labour was not in the least confident of winning Dartford, and largely because of this same women's vote. Does the Dart- ford result mean that the simple reaction of relief' and gratitude to Mr. Chamberlain for having averted war at Munich has worn off? If this is so, Labour should score heavily in the by-elections which are yet to come.
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QUOTATIONS FOR APPEASEMENT ·
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Even in his moments of wild- A National Opposition est optimism, that admirable min- or poet, William Edward ---Hick-
Mr. Ramsay Muir's appeal in son, can hardly have hoped that the "Westminster Newsletter" his work would be mentioned in for a national Opposition is an same breath with that of amplification of the Liberal mani- Shakespeare. Still less can he festo issued on October 19, in have foreseen that this exalta- which the National Executive de- tion would be owed to no less aclared that the party "is ready" person than the Prime Minister to co-operate with people of all of Great Britain, or that, at a other parties. No clear steps to- crisis of history, Shakespeare and wards co-operation have, how- himself would be called upon to ever, been taken since then. La- express the foreign policy of the bour issued its own manifesto ten English Government..
days after the Liberals, and the Yet this, in fact, is precisely most that can be said for it from what has happened. For Mr. Ne- this point of view is that it did London Phil. orch. ville Chamberlain, speaking to not specifically reject the possi- the crowd which had assembled bility of working with people of
t Heston to see him off on his other parties. third flight to Germany, declared that he based himself on. Hick- son's famous words,
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But a "National" Opposition envisages the co-operation of Conservatives as well as the two If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again,
existing Opposition parties, for hoping, by means of the funda-these already resist the Govern mentals of policy thus enunciat-ment's policy with all their force. ed, to bring about the result fore-What is needed is the mobilisa- tion of such Conservative opinion seen by Shakespeare,
Out of this nettle, danger, we as is hostile to the Government, pluck this flower, safety. and this can best be done by de- Mr. Chamberlain's policy is the termined leadership. There is a subject of great dispute; but good precedent. Disraeli, by his FACTnone will regret that he seems own drive and assisted by
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inclined to return to the old Par-influence of Lord, George Ben- liamentary habit of literary quo-tinck, overturned the apparently tation. In this he is supported impregnable Peel Government in The question is, whether by his colleagues, Sir John Simon. 1846.
who before now has laid. "The there are any potential Disraelis Hunting of the Snark" under among the Conservative dissi- heavy contribution în his dents.
speeches. Speeches generally
show a certain unity of temper,
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and a noble extract does much to Historic Homes set the tone of an address. There- fore, in the interests of interna- tional appeasement, a movement. might possibly be encouraged for more and better quotations.“
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The Dartford By-Election
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A further step is shortly to be taken by the National Trust in its effort to preserve the famous and beautiful country houses of Britain. It is presenting a bill to Parliament that, if passed, will free entailed property for ownership by the Trust, and so enable the latter to extend the The size of the Labour victory scheme by which it takes over in the Dartford by-election is historic houses, and allows still being discussed in London. owners to continue in occupation. There it is explained in various Some unentailed properties are ways. It is pointed out that Mrs. already held on such conditions Adamson, the victorious candi- by the Trust, and the results have date, had been cultivating the been very satisfactory.
to Fundamentally, this constituency for three years Mr. Michell's three weeks.
growing stewardship by a non- Another school of thought, re- official body, operating by lying on the simpler mathematics, sent, and as the friend of both says that the electorate had been the family and the state, at a increased in the last three years time when to talk of nationalizing by 23,000 voters, most of them property would be to let fall a working people, of whom 11,000 weighty proposition on a good
this is a voted Labour and 4,000 Conser-many toes vative, thus turning a Conserva-promise worthy of the nation's tive majority of 2,600 into a La-traditional talent. It is almost a bour majority of 4,400. It all stroke of genius; and the proof sounds so simple when it is put lies in the support that the Trust shade of that way, so long as one does not receives from every stop to wonder why 11 out of 15 opinion, and that will, no doubt, working men, holding their jobs be exemplified once again in the as the result of a Conservative passing of this bill.
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