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PRIME MINISTER.

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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT STARTLING DISCLOSURES IN

AIR MINISTRY REPORT. WAGES FOR DEAD MEN. REFUSAL TO PROSECUTE. Startling" disclosures are made in the latest report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure which was issued! as a White Paper on August 9th.. deals principally with affairs affecting the Air Ministry. Some twenty-nine wit-

BY T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.) If Lloyd George goes under in the House of Commons owing to the split,up of the artificial fabric of the present Coalition, either be will force a dissolu tion or a new administration will carry on the present Parliament. This brings at once the difficult problem of who will lead the Tory party.

Bonar Law, the present leader, has many things in his favour. He has faci lity, dexterity of speech, perfect temper, modesty, straightforwardness,

candour

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messes were examined. and as the result of the investigation the report says:

Your committee are of opinion that a very unsatisfactory state of affairs has been revealed. In their opinion. when cases of negligence,cr of frand have been discovered action should be taken against the offenders regardless of whe- ther they are officials of the department or not.

at once disarming and perilous in parlia imentary conflicts, where every word ought to be weighed. Another wonderful gift is a perfect memory. He never takes a note, can Bing out long rows of figures without looking at a single document, and

Evidence of a remarkable character was his speech gres easily from point to point in by Sir John Hunter, Administrator without any aid even from the big head-members that, speaking generally, no of Works and Buildings. He told the lines most practised speakers have to Tempioy. His method of preparing of the erection of aerodromes had earned man of the 20.000 engaged on the work speech is to sit down in a comfortable the money he received, and he went on chai: for a couple of hours. When that it to give details of a specific case in ever he rises utterly exhausted by the he alleged, there had been

which, & conspiracy! mental effort but quite prepared to start This WAS At Renfrew, and be out saying all he has arranged to say

charged Government men and contractor'sred This method of preparation partly ac

regularis drawing

38 wages counts for his main defect of too candid for men who did not exist. He had our utterance, for he speaks ag a man thinking men arrested, but the Lord Advocate de- aloud, and a parliamentarian can never clined to order д Prosecution. on the safely think aloud.

ground that

the evidence available was not sufficient to afford

any strong prob- ability of obtaining a conviction. The from the Lord Advocate's wecretary put men were accordingly freed. The letter forward the following additional reason for not taking action:-

LACES IRON IN TEMPERAMANT.

He also lacks that iron in his tempera ment which lies at the core of most great leaders of men. Parnell had it, Glad stone had it, Lloyd George bus it.. Bunar Law, intensely emotional, extremely

ediet. Jack, self-confidence and shrinks from responsibility. His emotionalism is Bugmented by bitter personal sorrows. He lost the wife be adored several years ago. He has been heard to say in privat that genuin interest in life had never been inspired since, and on top of this came the death of two boys in war. The latter loss cannot be mentioned by or tu him without risking an outbur In A speech celebrating the victory of the Allies be happened to mention the immense sacrifices victory redet and then had to pause several minutes before he could continue his speech,

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Further, a precation would reveal what appears to be inefficiency and ab- sence of control on the part of the re presentatives of the Ministry on the spot.

from the investigations made by frm Sir John Hunter went on to state that

measurers it appeared that there was a saa of about £40,000 charged by the contractors to the job which cauroc be accounted for and that he had applied to the War Offee asking them to court- martial an officer employed by the Air suspected of fraud, but that they refused Ministry in the same contract whom he to take any action, and informed him that he ought to take criminal prosced- ings.

W.R.AF CLOTHING CONTRACT.

One of these two sons was killed in the remote fighting in Mesopotamia. An Irish Catholic chaplain told Joe Devlin Revelations of an equally extraordin Janumerable stories of the poor boy'sary character are made in the report re- bravery, unselfishness and universal polating to a clothing contract for the pularity with all comrades. Jo, though Women's Royal Air Force." Briefly, the a most belligerent pelitician publicly, is story told to the Committee by Miss notoriously kind hearted in private, and Sullivan, the Clothing Controller of I thought it his daty to go to Bosar Law the Force, was that a contract for

€0.000 and repeat these encomium, as a salve garments was given to Manchester for the inther's wounded beart, and aswhose patterns had been rejected in fav Joe spoke he saw great tears streaming our of those of another establishments, down Law's cheeks-a 'strangely touching that the deliveries were not up to sample: scene between two men who represent the were being cut un the bias instead of on that she,, found. that the cunt-frocks ples of opinion on Irish self-govern.

the straight, a

course which, if persued. would have resulted in a saving to the advantage of the contractor of, three The Committee's comment regarding

yard per sarment quarters of the Lord Advocate is that they regret very much that he should have taken up the position that he did."

ment.

As to Law's self-distrust, the proof is that he was offered the premiership on Asquith's fall but profered the position to that terrible little Welshman, who knows fear arither of Cyd nor man nor himself.

GECH MAY GAIN CONTROL.

and

Finally Law has the great difficulty of no roots in the party which still largely the emotions of an audience, But he is represents the old order, the Established eccentric, impracticable, supersubtle, and Church and broad neres. He is a Freshyo prananerd and narrow an adherent berian Scotch-Irish t'anadian, and before the tublished Church as to be re- he entered politics was a Glasgow metal garded with hatred by vocomoran st. merchant, Arrogant Tories used to speak adstrust by that middle-class com. of him in private a Scottish irene al vient which has entered into munger. He has none of the commanding the modern Tory parts, an element. he appearang that magnetizes men, is tall, sides, which has that distrust of sacerdo- raw-boned, high-elekhoned, very like the tali in which is at the roots of the over- typical Scuteb professional golfer and whelming majority finally he got the leadership as a com

41 rationalistic Englishmen premise an hetween the rival claim o't Walter Long, the best survival of the

Lort Robert has got the great gilts great dejects of his brother, though old Tory squirearchy one omnipotent in alas suffers from the taint of sacerdo the Tory party, and Austen Chamberlain, talism. He resigned his appointment in the representative of the modern commer cial Tory democracy, and these compro views on the Welsh Church Disestablish- the ministry some months ago because his inise candidates always bear the scar of merit Act, a measure about which all | these internal struggles as Abraham-es feel absolute indifference with the Lincoln did when he onsted Seward and exception of bitter High Churchmen in Chase. Finally Law bas no private weak England and perfervid Nonconformists nesses except live of a cigar and a game of in Wales, bridge: his strongest drink is ginger bwer.

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But Lord Robert, as a practising bar These are reasons why people behind the father, while Lord Hugh remains an rister for many years, is a husband and scenes begin to discuss seriously the abstinate bachelor. He has mixed more chance of Tory leadership passing to the with men and realities, than Lord Hugh hands of Lord Robert Cecil. It is and thus unlearned something of the extraordinary example of continuity in English life that the Cecil' family should still help to govern England three cen turies after the original Cecil directed the foreign policy of Queen Elizabeth Generations of undistinguished Cecila in

archien creed in which he was brought narrow. Tory, High Church, quire

Hatfield, where his great progenitor in- up in the old Elizabethan mansion called

VIII. practised on the lands of the great vested some of the big plunder "Henry the interval had held great posts, but once monasteries at the time of the Refor more the old family glories were revived nation. He has not a particle of the re wher, the late Lord Salisbury guided för years as Premier and Foreign Minister Hounding, inspired oratory of his brother, both the domestic and foreign policy of him considerable debating powers, and be Late practice in the law courts has given England.

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A great journalist before he wií a knows, the technique of the House of great politician, one of the founders of putation enormously by his work or the Commons' work. He enhanced" big re the Saturday Review, "once the "most powerful weekly in England, and its most gue of Nations in Paris, and surprised and delighted old-time radioal oppoa murdan, writer, a poor younger son, whe made a love match with the daughter of cats by democratic, humanitarian" 4 judge then considered the last word stincts entirely denied him in former alinost a memilice, Lord Salisbury epochs of his career. bad the struggles of a young journalist some personal appearance. His height, He has a striking, rather than hand- till the death of his elder brother brought though great, is diminished by a heary him in direct succession to a great title and huge family. estates, mainly consist stop in the shoulders, the face is thin ing of big ground-vents in the most cathin; long legs characteristic of all the and wallow, and he is lanky with the tral parts of London off the big street present Cell family, while their father known as the Strand.

was huge to obesity.

SONS ARE DISTINGUISHED,

His traditions are all with the qld Tory His ons are all distinguished. One is party, and he shares some of their pre- n bishop. The present Lord Salisbury is Judices with a certain admixture of prominent, though not powerful, figure Parliament. In the old days, when ba modernity learned in the law courts and in the House of Lords. The chief brains, however, "are divided between two sons in was in opposition to Lloyd George and the the House of Commons-Lord Hugh and Irish Nationalists, he was extraordi- Lord Robert. Lord Hugh is one of the parily excitable for an Englishman, true orntory of his time with an extra. interrupting constantly, sometimes almost ardinary wealth of beautiful diction, shrieking, revealing a certain neurotic capable of sebatuff," as you call it in tendency in keeping with his physique. America, on OCCRaion and of lifting, the. I would compare Mm with Claude Frelax, whole House of Commons to that deadly the unhappy priest, who loved Esmeralda etillness which is the greatest demon in Victor Hugo's romance "Notre stration of an orator's omnipotence over from the parapets of the great cathedral. Dame" and was thrown by Quasimode (Continued at foot of hezt column.). -New York Herald.

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