(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Nov. 2:
'RONDE says in one of his "Short-Stories" that age brings immunity from sea-sickness.
Whether or not this is a scientific fact, the Prime Minister stood up the battering in the Channel on the way to Paris.
But the fates are not kind to him.¥On the top of the gale comes the crashing descent of the by-election in West Lewisham, reckoned one of the safest Conservative seats in England, where a majority of nearly 13,000 at the general. election s reduced to 5,648.
And this on top of a heavy drop at Oxford and the loss of Dartford and Bri Mr. Vernon Bartlett's necess at Bridgwater is attributed by Government supporters to his popularity as a broadcaster on foreign affairs and to the fact that he stood as an Independent. But both these excuses really tell against themselves.
The Government's foreign policy, or foreign record, is not popular. But that is far from saying that the country would trust itself to the Labour Party, which by the way is again: quarrelling in itself over the old bone of "United Front" with Liberals and LIP, which the old dogs of Labour still obstinately decline to swallow. In these cireumstances Mr. Vernon Bartlett represents something new, and certain his broadcasts on foreign affairs are level-headed and temperate.
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