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BRITAIN'S DIVIDED
OPPOSITION
This attitude will not go un- challenged by practical Socialists who see that the country will be continually controlled by Conser- vatives and themselves perpetual- ly excluded from power unless the party accepts allies. On this point there will be a keen strug- gle, but at present there is sign of yielding on the part of Labour's "old guard," which is strongly entrenched in key posi- tions,
**
In the Steps
of Alexander
по
Four young Englishmen have recently returned to London from an adventurous expedition in the It is one great strength of Mr. Himalayas, where, in the Swat Neville Chamberlain's Govern- Valley, the "Garden Valley of a they ment in Great Britain that his op-Thousand Monasteries," ponents, united in opposition to have made discoveries that, his policy, refuse to be united in cording to one authority, "will organisation. The Labour Party without doubt throw great light has it in its power to promote a united front în opposition. But at present it is not willing to do
So.
on many historical problems.”
Who, or why, or which,
or what,
ac-
Swat becomes a familiar name to many Englishmen in their nur sery days; but it is not to be im- Consider the position of Mr. agined that this expedition will Chamberlain's Government: It is
answer at last the question that still called the "National Govern-they used to ask them: ment," and it retains this title in view of the fact that it is sup-
Is the Akond of SWAT? ported by persons who designate
It is concerned with a greater themselves "Liberal" or "Labour" with the prefix "National." But character, although one, in some the forces of its opponents in and ways, no less mysterious; for its out of Parliament have been in-excavations were carried out on creasingly articulate, and on one the route taken by Alexander the point at least these are united-Great on his famous march to in their conviction that a differ- the banks of the Indus. Any dis- ent foreign policy is required. covery bearing on that stupend- Against Mr. Chamberlain, of ous feat is bound to be interest- course, are the solid battalions of ing, and historically important; industrial and political Labour, and the unearthing of statues of and the latter has now received Buddha revealing obvious signs the promise of electoral support of Greek influence, from where from the well-organised Co-opera-they had lain buried for nearly tive Party. Against him, also, is 2,000 years, is, alone, a sufficient the Liberal Party, small in Par-reward for the efforts of the ex- liamentary representation, but pedition.
still capable of turning at least But the great question that his- themselves |2,000,000 votes in the country.torians have asked
And lastly, there is the new Con-about the invasion: "Was it," in servative opposition which has the words of Mr. H. G. Wells,. come into being in consequence "a systematic survey of a world“
re- he meant to consolidate into one of what some Conservatives
ex-great order, or was it a wild- gard as Mr. Chamberlain's cessive complaisance in the face goose chase?"--that is likely to of Fascist and National Socialist remain still unanswered. - When it comes to "Why?" Alexander is gains.
It includes such formidable lea-as inscrutable as the Akond. ders as Mr. Anthony Eden, Mr.
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Winston Churchill, Mr. Albert Hoops, My Dear!
Duff Cooper, and the Duchess of
It appears that English women Atholl. The secession of the lat-
Not are going back to the 'crinoline. ter is specially significant. only has she held office in a form- One wonders if this be a result er Conservative Ministry, but she again of that Parisian influence has a strong Conservative follow-upon other nations in the matter ing in Scotland and in England. of feminine dress; for, if so, it A United Front opposition vote, is amusing to reflect that once such as has sent the independent it was hoped in Paris that the in- candidate, Vernon Bartlett, influence of foreigners would abol- triumph to Parliament, was ask-ish the crinoline. ed for in Scotland by the Duchess
Saint-Simon relates
in his of Atholl and though it was not memoirs how the example of the aDuchess of Shrewsbury led to so successful, the result was close thing. Such a union of for- the ladies at the court of Louis ces might nevertheless spell for XIV. abandoning their great their representatives victory at headdresses, and he adds: “Sen- a general election. It is desired sible people await with impatience by dozens of Labour members, the advent of another as was shown by the message sent by thirty-nine of them in support of Vernon Bartlett.
for- eigner to disencumber our ladies of the enormous hoops which are as intolerable to themselves as they are to everybody else.”
But official Labour is jealously
The modern crinoline is not exclusive. Its backbone, the men who have built it up on the basis such a full-rigged affair as its of the trade union movement, are predecessors of the eighteenth unwilling to ally themselves with century, and of the Victorian era; any group which will not sub-moreover, fashions are more scribe to the whole of their transient than they used to be; policy. Passionately though most so that, although the times are of their members feel about scarcely spacious enough for the Ethiopia, about Spain, about. Cze-mode, it is not likely that the choslovakia, about dictatorship, No-Crinoline League of the nine- their leaders are still reluctant to ties will be revived to oppose join with those who share these this new attempt to put ladies feelings but do not accept the through the hoop-"Christian
Science Monitor." whole Socialist doctrine.
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