It is interesting to see that the London County Council is discussing how it may tighten up safeguards against the white slave trafic, Since, several years ago, the "cat" was introduced for white slivers, these gentry have found it less protable to operate in England. A food deal of nonsense, too, is talked bout their methods, as, for instance, that they slip up alongside girls in the street, jab a morphia needle them and kidnap them while ssensible—which is" rubbish On the other hand there are so-called theatrical agencies which send girls abroad ostensibly to theatrical jobs, actually to a disastrous fate.
It is these agencies over which the L.C.C. wants to get more control and it complains that the Government gives no help and should hold en inquiry into the whole scandal, England she would merely take aunk'as what Queen Victoria once described "ax "a common duchess."
'On the whole one does not. think they will come and most people will fool they had better not. 'There is till much affection in' England for the Duke. It is rumouret™ that there Is even a party of new tegitimists, who dream of somehow get ting him back' to the throne, though how it beats ordinary wit to Imagine. Yet undoubtedly the teneral feeling was for once ace cumtoly if brutally summed up by Mr, Herbert Morrison, when he said that "Kings who abdicate have only two alternatives—to. make 9 of themselves, or to dis A Daring Duchess Another duchess who Is very much in the news is her Grace of Atholl, "conservative M.P. for Kin-ross and West Perth for the past 18 years. She has quatrelied witl: the" Government over its foreign ohoy, notably as regards Spain, where she ardently supports. the Nationalists of Barcelona—and some few months ago announced that she did not' wish Renceforward revive the Party whip (the technical way of declaring that she was thenceforward independent). The Kinross Unionist Association mat and decided to find another candid-
Pte, To this the Duchess has replied with spirit by" Lesigeing her scat Ghd" announcing that she will Aight inthe by-election as an Independent candidate, There has never been a Labour candidate in this constituency, but a Mrs, Coll MacDonald put up at the Inst election as a Liberal, wham the Duchess beat by 5,000 voles. The local Liberals were for a day or two undecided whether to oppose the Duchess or not, but have eventually decided to run Mrs. Mac Donald again, The oficial Unionis's will put up a Perthshire farmer. So will bea three-cornered fight of extraordinary interest, with the issue probably lying between the two women.
"The Duchess of Atholl is of medium hight, thin and wiry, with a pronouncédly aquiline nose and a turn for incisive speech. She has already Issued a trenchant manifesto, denouncing "the dismemberment of the virile democracy of Czechoslovakia" which has "placed Gram Britain in a gravely weakened strategic position." and the further danger if through their catspaw Franco, Germany and Htaly got control of Spain. On the whole the Duchess's chances seem food. Her opinions are those of many people, the constituency" has Known her for 15 years; she isa conspicuous figure in the House; and with #0 much flabbiness among our pub-lig men there will be tremendous admiration for a woman who does not hesitate to express her feelings plainly and fight for them pugnaci-
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