One of the most interesting election results to hand is that announcing the reten of Mr. C, F. G. Masterman. He has not been in Parliament since 1914, in which year he constituted the yatiier rare spectacle of a Cabinet Minister without a seat in the House. He had been a useful subordinate member of Mr. Asquith's administration, and at the beginning of 1914, if we remember aright, it was decided to bring him into the Cabinet as Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster. That necessitated his standing for his constituency anew at a by-election, and he was defeated. Within the next two or three months he contested other constituencies—four or five of them—but fate was dead against him and finally he gave up what seemed a particularly unequal struggle. Soon afterwards he resigned the Cabinet, and although he occupied a minor position under the Government during the war he did not again come into the limelight. We rather think that his record of defeats was increased in the 1918 election. The fact that at long last he has again secured a seat in Pa'liament might almost be taken as suggesting that the tide of Liberalism is again flowing.
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