"A statesman" said Disraeli, "is a But nowadays with the wide resources available of the Popular Press one may enjoy the re~ ulation of statesmanship without going through the painful process of ying for it, specially ie one has the wit to choose the right moment for rebring from the political flelé.
It would be interesting if we could ook ahead $0 years and seo what the future will say of Mr, Baldwin, His gradual withdrawal from. the Premiership in the past few days has been surrounded with roseate lights, When he spoke at the Empire banquet last Monday, the whole assemblage, fully 1,000 people from all parts of the Empire, rose to their feet and cheered deafeningly. T-know some people who cannot hear a word in his favour and others who cannot, hear a word against him, Some call him statesmanlike and' farsighted, others declare he is only adroit and subtle. Some acclaim him the truest of patriots, others dismiss him os a perfect example of the charity which beginneth at home.
That Mr. Baldwin deserved high praise for his behaviour at the time of the formation of the National Government in" 1931 and for the consistent manner in which he played second Addie for so long to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, is agreed by all. But his stock slumped badly in the crisis of the Hoare-Laval peace proposals for Abyssinia, and. for the manner in which he' jettisoned Sit Samuel Hoare. What saved the Government, then was Mr. Neville Chamberlain's fighting speech and the evident fact that there was no. Opposition conceivably capable of on the country's government,
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