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“TIRED” MINISTER
The embargo on the postcard is applied, it appears, under "the law for the protection of national symbols." Apparently one may assume that Mr. Chamberlain, with or without umbrella, has ceased to be a national symbol from the Nazi point of view which is again a blow that we shall all bear with equanimity. In these days it would be rather a dubious compliment for anyone to find himself approved as
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"The Times" leader on "tired "national symbol" by Dr. Goeb- ministers," suggesting that there bels. are members of the Cabinet who from the should be relieved strain to which they have been subjected during the past year or so, came as a surprise to most observers.
Evidence
accumulates
that
and Berk-
common electoral action by both wings of the Opposition would be Most of them, seeking a peg widely appreciated in Britain. on which to hang their explana-There has been a conference of
on the 69-year-old members of tions, fixed
the Liberal and Viscount Runciman Lord Presi- Labour parties in Oxfordshire, dent of the Council, as the man Buckingshamshire, against whom the criticism was shire, which has issued a memor- mainly directed.
landum advocating something common action on. It is, of course, quite true that more than ministers have had a particular-elections. "We regard it as es- ly heavy time during the past sential," says the memorandum, twelve months; on other "that men and women of good- hand, this is a particularly young will should work together cabinet of men who are not [every vital issue, whether local, until likely to have unduly felt the national, or international, strain. The average age is only all threats to our liberties and about 57, and only seven of the our economic security and wellbe-
the
nor
ing, whether from
the of elections
on.
abroad or
18 members are over 60.'
The key to the problem is nei- from at home, have been remov- ther Lord Runciman
the ed." The outstanding and im- weariness of ministers generally mediate object of the movement it is, rather, the possibility of is to secure the defeat of the pre- the launching of one
sent Government. Recent events, strangest general
it is urged, have made more than modern times:
lever important a united Opposi- which political policies, of which tion capable of forming an al election is normally a fierce ternative Government of form- battle-ground, are likely to playing an alternative Government. comparatively little part.
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which could stand effectively |against aggression abroad. “We are confident," ends the state- ment, "that there are large num- Not many people may be able bers of voters all over the coun- to equal Sir Samuel Hoare's try who regard with growing: claim to have read Stendhal's impatience the present divisions "Chartreuse de Sarma" four among the progressive parties." times, but even that is far from
a record in devotion to a book, The Special Areas Sir Henry Hadow stated some
time ago that he had read It is perhaps not too far-fetch- "Bleak House" twelve times, Mr.ed to see an important change Compton Mackenzie says he has of policy in the new appointment read "Pride and Prejudice" to the Commissionership of the twenty-four times and "Emma" Special Areas. Sir George Gil- seventeen times, and the late lett has resigned and has been Lord Birkenhead claimed to have succeeded by a retired civil ser- read nearly all the Waverley vant, a former deputy secretary Navels at least a score of times; of the Ministry of Labour. This while Byron declared he had suggests that the tradition of read all Scott's works published putting the special areas under in his lifetime "at least fifty an independent, unconventionally times."
minded outsider has been given. Perhaps the record, however, up and that the job has been lies with a French bishop, Pierre pulled back into the safe, hum- The Huet, elevated to the see of drum departmental fold. Avranches in 1689, who, from first Commissioner was Sir early youth, never failed to read Malcolm Stewart, who annoyed. the Idylls of Theocritus every the Government by going out- spring. As the bishop lived to side his strict brief and suggest- the age of 92, Sainte-Beuve cal-ing a bold attack on national un-- culated that he must have repeat- employment problems. The sec- ed this labour of love at least ond Commissioner was Sir George former seventy times.
Gillett, who, though a National Labour member of the Government, was also of some considerable independence. He,
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It is not to be supposed that too, has resigned. Mr. Chamberlain will have spent The Government argues, it is a sleepless night over the an- supposed, that the special areas nouncement that little Dr. Goeb-problem is ceasing to exist now bels has forbidden the sale of a that rearmament promises to postcard, dating from last aut-take up some of the un- umn, which showed the British employed and that with the large Premier and Herr Hitler among financial commitments already the ruins of the castle at Godes-undertaken it is time to go slow. berg. Rather more ruins than If that is the case Sir James any that previously existed at Price's long experiences at the beauty spots on the Rhine have Ministry of Labour may be pre- since come into view as a result sumed to have fitted him for those ill-starred interviews, carrying out a laissez-faire policy.
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