The Archive · 1938

Critical Voices Raised

It may seem strange, remembering the delirious enthusiasm with which the Prime Minister was greeted on his return from Muhich, that now so many dissatisfied voices are raised in criticism. A writer in the "Daily Telegraph" today sums up the feeling well, when he says that "the country as a whole gave its approval to the policy adopted by Mr. Chamberlain but with the reservation that it was the only one possible in the circum-Lices." But it has now begun to ask questions as never before.

Though they may not know it," the writer goes on, "the leaders responsible ior Government policy are on trial during the next few months. The dition ally placid temper of the British people has been stirred. TI are getting, tired of insults and jeers from the dictators, tired of climb down to each successive crisis and ashamed that men who have given their best, diving in foreign lands building up what we know as British prestige, should now be betrayed by Weak administration."

That last sentence might almost have been expressly written to voice whi must be the feelings in nghai As a matter of common gumption, urely the derelict trenches in Hyde Park and Regent's Park are a very advertisement for the Gover ment. Hastil; scooped out 2 crisis air raid s inadequate enough at that, there they remain melancholy mounds and ditches of mud and water. Nobody seems to know wha ecome of them. As a daily sample before our eyes of confusion and indecision where all the demand is for clear out resolute planning nothing could Scotland and Mr; W. S. Morrison is having a try. Three or four years ago Mr. Morrison was spoken of as the coming man; foreign delegates at Geneva were specially polite to him as the future Prime Minister.

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