Mr, Winston Churchill must have felt that he had temporarily reverted to the years of his irrepressible youth when he received from the House of Commons so prompt and smart a rebuff to his eccentric effort al making political capital out of the dimeult position In which Mr. Stanley Bald~ win ig placed, 'The effect of Mr. Churchill's ill-advised intervention. has been to consolidate public opinion in support. of the Prime Minister whose handling of the situation has been marked by such exceptional patience, calmness and dignity that only a' man lost to all sense onerosity could have perpetrated Mr. Churchili's gaffe. Frequently in the course of a distinguished, If erratic, career Mr, Churchill has displayed qualities which have prompted the hope that in him Great Britain has a Feal statesman, Somehow or other he has never quite filed the bill, despite a remarkable gift of oratory which has overcome all handicaps and despite his deftness in swinging from one allegiance to an+ other. The House of Commons has its own traditions, among them a onerous readiness to forgive and forget. Statesmen who have lost ground in the House have frequently found that time has brought Its venge, The late Earl of (then Mr. A. J.) Balfour, after his debacle in 1606," found a' most hostile House facing him but 9s the months passed, he recovered, indeed enhanced his former ascendancy in debate, Mr. Churchill has been conspicuous os free lance in recent months and his speeches have been generally heard with considerable respect and atten ton, but latterly he has returned to his "nagging" methods and last month. Sir "Samuel "Hoare. twitted him roguishly on that account. "Now he seems to have been led further astray and it seems likely that it will be' a Jong. time before his indiscretion and tnpse in good taste will be pardoned,
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