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“Couldn't keep my eye

on the ball to-day!”

“Never mind, you can tell

this whisky blindfold”

There is no other whisky with quite the genial mellowness, the smoothness, the exquisite fragrance of White Horse. When you find all the qualities of finest Scotch whiskies blended into one, you know it can only be White Horse Whisky.

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 11, 1940.

THE TALENTS OF A CHURCHILL CALLED TO PREMIERSHIP

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Mr. Churchill has become Prime Minister leagues; his nimble wit was impatient of at a critical hour. Fortunate, perhaps, for dulness, especially in his superiors; he de- him that it is critical. The danger, lit up tested the perilous and sordid extremes into as by a sudden lightning flash, has closed which the dependence of the Liberal party the ranks which had begun to gape.

upon Irish Nationalist support was hurrying His first act is to create .A small. War the country during the closing stages of the Cabinet of five. That is something which Home Rule controversy. Mr. Chamberlain-who has made way with the gesture of a true patriot, and is, willing to serve at the table where for three years he has ruled-did not feel impelled to do, perhaps because it would have cost him one or two of his most intimate advisers,

This disturbed many who remembered | Sarah-must have been revolted at times by

the Great War, when a War Cabinet of Five was found to be a prime essential of victory. They will be relieved to have it again now, under the charge of one who represents the very spirit of the offensive.

CHANCE PLAYS A PART

Mr. Churchill thus attains the cherished object of nis ambition and fulfils the rich promise of his early Parliamentary years. Not, indeed, in the manner expected. But politics are always brimming over with the unexpected, and Mr. Churchill owes his elevation-totally unlooked for only a short year ago-to the sudden and incalculable mutations of war.

Only fools pretend to believe that human affairs are governed by Chance, but that -the careers of statesmen-owe-much to For-. tune has been one of the commonplaces of history since the Muse inspired men to re- flect and record.

GENIUS WASTED Moreover, the grandson of a territorial Duke must have had moments of grave mis- with 1 giving when riding knee to knee highwaymon, and the lineal descendant of Marlborough-not to mention the Duchess

-By-

J.B. FIRTH

the purblind pacifism which perpetually thwarted his supreme efforts at the Admir- alty to make the King's ships ready for sen in the war which he knew to be coming a quarter of a century ago.

undergone

Few British statesmen have `greater vicissitudes-than-Mr-Churchill.- When the Great War started he seemed des- tined for greater glory than any of his col- leagues.

Fortune has been by turns Mr. Churchill's

Mr. Whe-

was Churchill's genius

tragically loyal friend and most impish enemy. ther it was good luck or bad for him to be wasted, and the unworthy political Jealous- born in the political faith of his father, Lordles which first compelled his extrusion from Randolph Churchill, it is hard to say. "Tory the Cabinet and then retarded his return Democracy" always baffled a definition that are one of the gravest blots upon the poli- Batisfied either friend or foe. Moreover, his tical record of the time. father was the most brilliant political failure of the late Victorian age.

armed

Probably

WHEN OUT OF OFFICE This is no moment for a review in detail Yet, though merely the shadow of a name of the many phases of his career. Was he to the present generation, he is still a liv-right, for example, in continuing ing and tragic memory to those who were support to the White Russians against the taking their first heady draughts of the Bolsheviks after the Armistice? political elixir when Lord Randolph was in not, in view of the hostility it aroused, but, at any rate, right or wrong, he accurately disaster the can never have been long absent from the presaged what an appalling

Europe triumph of Bolshevism meant for mind of his eager and ambitious son.

and the world,

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INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

Bringing Up Father.

BY GOLLY- EVERYBODY IN OFFICE IN WASHINGTON IS. OUT WHEN YOU CALL ON THEM-MAGGIE. WANTS ME TO CALL ON JUDGE BYSYPS-

MAGGIE'S BROTHER MET HIM AT THE BAR-

I'M MR. JIGGS-

IS THE JUDGE IN

HE WAS ALL. IN-

·YESTERDAY- BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW HE FEELS TODAY-

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SKILL IN DEBATE

Again, was he right in the unyielding re- There never was a more brilliant partisan sistance he offered to the policy of Indian than Lord Randolph when he infused his Constitutional Reform? Probably not, for own high courage into a nerveless Conser the case was already prejudged in advance, vative Opposition in the House of Commons and generosity and magnanimity in

fail. and. became as much the platform idol of matters rarely

But here, too, Mr. the Conservative working-men of the north Churchill won the respect of the country for side of England as Mr. Gladstone was of the his boldness in taking the unpopular Radical. His son was no less brilliant and sticking to it through thick and thin, partisan when he tore to pieces the leading even at the cost of broken friendships with figures of Mr. Balfour's forlorn and distract-old associates and the possible ruin of his ed Administration and drew freely from an chance of return to his rightful place in his inexhaustible fund of ingenious and hilarious party's councils. raillery. There was also the same rollick- ing gusto in the performance-in that res- pect happily the Prime Minister has never fully grown up-the same dexterity, of phrase, the same gift of selecting the right barb for the right sore place.

Mr. Churchill has never sulked in his tent and waited for overtures to be made to him. During the 10 years he was out of office he fought his own battles and his own campaigns, lending a powerful but uninvited hand to the Government from time to time, and never speaking without revealing anew the loss which his absence from the Govern- ment meant. His supreme aim since 1835 was to rouse the British people to a sense of the dimensions of the new German men-

Mr. Balfour possessed a large Indifference to attack, but he often winced under the shafts of the youthful member for Oldham, so lately his unappreciated and unrecognis- ed follower, who spoke at 30 with all the aplomb and with & sure touch of aristo-ace-especially the menace from the air, cratic insolence that the harassed Prime Minister remembered in his wayward leader and associate of the Fourth Party 20 years before.

Here was a freshness, unspoiled by over- study, an audacity which scorned conven- tion, a self-confidence which rebutted the suspicion of concelt because it produced aj constant series of applauded achievements and a seemingly unquenchable reserve of energy.

Nor could want of experience be thrown in the teeth of one who had lived in camps and seen war in India, in Cuba, In the Sudan, and in South Africa, and could al- ready show astonishingly rich first-fruits of a vivid and masterly pen. A new and more brilliant apparition than Randolph was shin- ing in the political heavens: would it prove comet or fixed star? --

HIS PREDECESSOR Rearmament first on a modest, then on a large, and afterwards on an ever-increasing scale-such were the gradations to which the National Government was driven step by step, and at each the voice of Mr. Chur- chill was heard warning them that only the His uttermost sacrifice would be enough. recognition was that, when war came last · September, he was summoned to a place in the War Cabinet by the virtually unanimous voice of the people.

And now he is Prime Minister I would not say that it is Hitler who has thrust Mr. Churchill into his high office, but the syn- chronisation of his invasion of Holland and Belgium with a Cabinet crisis in London settled with a snap in less than an hour doubts and hesitations and negotiations which might in the normal way-as in De- cember, 1918-have been protracted days and left irreparable wounds and en- mities behind.

over

The truth about Mr. Churchill's varlegat ed career he left the Conservative for the Liberal party at the 1000 election-1s that though in many respects he seemed a typical

"A divided Cabinet," as Queen Victoria party man, he was, as Lord Rosebery ac

once bluntly wrote to her favourite Prime tually observed of his father, "In substance Minister, "is no use." The Empire needs and in spirit far away.' He could ill abidea Chatham. We shall soon know whether close contact with his more clayey col-he has been found in Mr. Churchill,

I'M NOT HIS DOCTOR-ALL.

I WANT TO KNOW IS- IS THE IN?

I DON'T KNOW- BUT I CAN FIND OUT IF HE HAS

BEEN IN P HE ISN'T IN-

By George McManus

NO-HE HASN'T BEEN IN CAUSE THERE ARE HIS GOLF STICKS-F THEY WERE GONE-1 WOULD KNOW THAT HE HAD BEEN. IN AN!

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