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I begin fly describing a little scene which may seem remote," I was taking lunch in an hotel in Windsor-one Sunday when I saw at a table quite close to me a familiar face-net too familing at that time, for he was young, to the work of a Parliamentary colleague—who sat by the side of a lad, evidently his sen and an Eton boy. I now and then took a fur. tivo look at him, and he a furtive look at me; we both shivered on the brink of Fa-anlute, int we had never spoken' to ench other, auit we were on opposite sides in a then acute political controversy-differ ences, it may be well to read in this epoch of extraordinary transformations were acute at one time og Ireland in the House of Comunens-and, both being fairly shy men, we hesitated to make the a Tronch which I desired, and he. I hope,

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,chaner, or by choice, Mr. Baldwin reavly) This chance meeting will perhaps give spoke in his earlier Ministerial days some indication of character. Mr. Baid until ten o'clock at night, and then he win is a modest and a shy and a very had thin audivace as rule. I did not simple man. In his attitude to political hear any of thera late speeches-I keep distinction he is Mr. Bonar Law-only good bones now compulsorily-but reading MOTE 30. There were moments-especially over the Hansard Debates the following after he had become for the first time morning. I suddenly began to realise that Leader of the Unionist party in the House; there was another big debater in the

Commons when Mr. Bonar Law House of Connions of whom in that capa showed some of the fery enjoyment of city the House of Commons and not yet deadly battle; as, for instance, when, with begun to think. I was struck by the neat Feherint passion and fierce accents, he turn of the dietion; by its point and pictured the Liberal Ministers lynched at laridity: above all, by the frequent happy "HONGKONG CICAR STORE, LTD. REEVE FUND lampposts in London the first day they and good humoured phrase which is in fired a shot) on the Protestants of the the best traditions of House of Commons North of Ireland. But then-thonch humour-and House of Commons humour. people forget it sometimes-Mr. Bönar a special brand. is most welcome when Law is a bit of an Irishman-at least, of, the speaker hits off a personal character an t'isterman and he was speaking on with a phrase of raillery, raillery that a question on which no Cisterman, how may be slight and harmless, but may also ever kitully and good-humoured-nud Mr.be deadly. Mr. Baldwin was almost always Honar Law is beth-has ever been able to good humoured, but now and then he keep cool. Mr. Baldwin is the antithesis of could be deadly, the deadlier because he an Elsterman; or of an Irishman of any was apparently so good-humoured. I type: there is no more thoroughly English said to myself, I must hear this man Englishman in the House of Commons, and when I get the chance; he has the root Englishmen rarely lose the splendid tradi- of the House of Conumens methods off tional self control and the saving humeur speech in bin..and he'd go for." which restrain them from vehemence of So I began to take notice of this very expression, or give them that sense of pro-quiet and elusive man; and soon I was nortion which does not allow them to take to have abundant opportunity of doing so. things tragically. Like most Englishmen, His real chance of distinction did not come he is saved from excess of emotion or ex- till the universally Innuented Knegs of i pression by the keen and ever-present his fine chief. Then, with very little seuse of humour which sent the Tommy with a joke over the tow, and ends a scene of tragic passion in the House with uni- versal laughter.

NO LOVE OF NOTORIETY,

previous training, Mr. Baldwin had to pass through what is really the fiery furnace of the House of Commons, matury, the duty of answering questions a, Leader of the House. The fair peti- tioner in the Divored Court or the erring He is a man of "ruiddie height, of light co respondent has not a more trying ex- brown complexion, of an expression at perience than the man who has to answer once shrewd, humorous, and tranquil.all and sundry during question time. You cannot imagine hing in a passion Traps lie underneath apparently inno either of temper or of words. He has not cent questions: keen cross-examiners arc a particle of the love of the limelight or there to detect flaws or inconsistencies; an of the command of picturesque language enger crowd hangs on every phrase to find which makes for dramatic scenes and precause for tumultuous triumph over a at the centre of enhusiastic score against the Minister, or equally Benty Que

an intoxicated crowd.vociferous applause for a deadly blow plaudits from Everything about him is studiously-it dexterously parried by the Minister. might almost be said 'roquettishly-simple: Bundle, in short, the emotions and the his clothes are simple almost to shabbiness crowd spirit of a case in the courts, so commonplace and so usual as to shock first night of a play, and a brilliant prize the scathing critic of the Tailor and fight, together with their different crowds, Cutter," He is an igreterate smoker: but and you have some idea of the sensations again you never see him with a cigara of a really first-class question-time, cigarette he probably despises--but with Very cool, very good-humoured, very the briar-root pipe that yon associate apt, and now and then ready to give way with the trade union leader of dentceratie to his almost impish humour, Mr. Bald habits in smoking as in other things. win passed through the fiery ordeal; and He is often a visitor to the members' everybody was convinced that if be ever smoke-room-that Palace of Truth in did reach to permanency in this great which, for the time, the Parliamentarians position the House of Commons would drop the mask and the buskin and talk have a leader who would know how to with equal fiberality of the merits of their guide it by all arts which make for tactful opponents and the wraknesses of their management of so uneasy and so uncertain friends. But even in the smoke-rosm you a gathering of men. see that characteristic of the simple man who avoids show. He never the centre

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These are the external things which of an admiring circle of friends or poti- tied copements; never the master and account for the popularity and for the guide, if not the dictator, of the conversuccess of Mr. Baldwin; but there must be sation, Labb long ago filled that role many other things which obtained for him Stretched in half-leaning position at the such confidence among his own fris. edgn rather than in the middle of the To understand what these things re group on the benches, sucking stendily one should be more intimately acquainted the briar-roct pipe, he seems just one of than I could be with the inner councils the rank and file, listening rather than and the eddies and currents of the Minis speaking; and when he speaks, terse and terial party. But I assume that the con- simple, and with no appearance of want-fidence in Mr. Baldwin which his com rades have shown so conspicuously is due ing or seeking an audience,

to their feeling that, underneath this He is just the same in the House of quiet, exterior, there are strong convic Commons, For a long time after his option and tenacious purpose. It was he trance into the House he was probably who. according to all accounts, wo the unknown even by sight to the majority of victory for the duty on glazed gloves, his colleagues. He sought the obscure which did as much as anything else to gents, and avoided the seats of the mighty, disrupt the Ministry of Mr. Lloyd George. He did not try, as so many of the young He, too, must have been the decisive factor and ambitious do, even the comparatively that broke down the powerful combina small conspicuousness of the corner sat, tion of Ir. Lloyd George, Mr. Chamber- He sat either behind his chief who 'at one moment was 3r. Bonar Law, to whom lai Mr Churchill, and Lord Birken- bead, which stood for the perpetuation, of he acted as Private Secretary and when the Coalition. It must have looked to he cune into office he chose the extremis any man with only the ordinary mount and of the Treasury Bench, a spat.which of courage and self-confidence a hopeless the Timelight never steghód. He wasn't playing a game-there is nothing in, him enterprise to face such Titans, with such that suggests the man playing any game magnificent resources behind them? and quiet, shy, detached Mr. Baldwin must but that was just bis temperament. He have looked to outsiders the last, of the "did not eravo for notoriety or for Davids who would face this Goliatis. plaudits: he almost exaggerated the part But he did face it, and he won, and his of the humdrum Englishman of business, victory was the victory of the section of who had his job to do and did it un- the Conservative party which, for the mo ostentatiously and thoroughly, and left the ment, is dominant in the Conservative

result to fortune.

ranks.

If he had been a coinolex as he is Mr. Baldwin looks his part. He is Fol simple, Mr. Stanley Baldwin was purau-the middle stature, to half ninetry ing the right path to reach the great neither small nor tall, but just of medium eminence which he has now attained for height. He is clean-shaven; his frame is the House of Commons in like the board not large, but it looks very robust and ing school, with its own public opinion, very well-knit. He looks leisurely in re which is quite different from the opinion pose, and active and rapid when he moves outside, and it does like a modest man, through the lobbies.. His short cont, and it does dislike the bounder and the usually of dark Melton, with trousers of climber. And this palpable, and. I am inconspicuous colour, just makes him the Kure, quite honest and genuine ahyncse of unnoticeable man in a crowd which be Mr. Stanley Baldwin has done a great would like to be. He could not be mis- deal to create that universal popularity taken anywhere for anything but the for he is a popular with his political typical Englishman, genial and reserved, opponents as with his friends which and truthful and straight. He perhaps, accounts for his astonishingly rapid rise is successful partly because he cares BG from obscurity to eminence.

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