The wildness of the rumours that Have been current this week is foot of the unsettled state of Parliamentary life. As a specimen, one, that Mr, Ramsay MacDonald would go as Viceroy to India, other Ministers be dropped and new goring blood be brought into the A case of unusual interest has Just been brought to a close in the Court of Appeal, in which the Homeless Children's Aid and Adoption Society (a Protestant society) and the Roman Catholic Crusade of Rescue and Home for Destitute Catholic Children contended for possession of the infant daughter of an unmarried servant girl Ellen Carroll who is a Roman The child was born in April, 1929, and baptized in her mother's faith. In the following December the mother handed over the baby to the Homeless Children's Society and, according to them, signed away all future claims over it, while they undertook to find adoptive parents for the child, in fact did find a very wealthy couple for this purpose.
Two days after he had done this the Roman Catholic claimed, or rather got the mother to reclaim the child, The Society refused and the case went before Mr. Justice Charles in chambers who found for the Society. Ellen Carroll oppe ed to the Divisional Court which supported the first decision. Then the case went to the Court of appeal which found by two to one for the mother and the Roman'
These canards are no doubt an outcome of the general feeling thal ao work of any value to the countr; being done, and that Labour and Liberals are giving all their energy mere mancuvring for position while the Conservatives have set themselves to a policy of general harrying.
The one shining fact is Six John Simon's recent call to Liberals to put conscience before tactics, to Note against the Government when kavketion bids them and "'chance"
An important point was that the necessary steps for the child's formal adoption by the couple who were to take her had not been fulfilled; and the Appeal Court held that there was no such superior advantage for the child in being brought up in a real home (as arranged by the Protestant Society) over the institute in which the Roman Catholic would put her, as to justify them in denying a mother's sight to have her child Drought up in her own faith.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.