Reuter's forecast of impending changes in the Cabinet on the retire ment of Mr. Stanley Baldwin after the Coronation will not have come aS a surprise to readers of this Journal for on Jan, 10 a lending article covered all the names men= tioned, "except Mr. Ramsay Mac. Donald's. Of Mr. Neville Chamber-Jain as the Prime Minister-designate Mr. Robert Bernays, the National Liberal Member for' North Bristol, gives an interesting character sketch inthe current "Fortnightly", Recognizing that Mr, Chamberlain has, as ye, little of Mr, Baldwin's appeal, Mr. Bernays nevertheless fools that National Government traditions will be safe in the newcomer's hands There will be no "turning half-right" for, although Mr. Chamberlain fe the idol of the Conservative "party caucus," he has the old Liberal fervour of his father and as he has not the same personal magnetism with Left Wing thought as Int. Baldwin, he may be disposed to remedy that defect by broadening the basis of his Government. As Chancellor of the Exchequer Mer. Chamberlain has, never been accused of relieving the rich at the expense of the poor, Mr. Bernays points out and con: wer "of "indiiry. frruce into the whole of ability "to Mration his "own high standards fiat expresses 150 in plait {ilowed: by firm action:
Incidentally Mr. Chamberlain, though not a scintillating speaker, ts alway's master of the facts, He' can castigate'opponents in the "Joe Chamberlain" style, He is the one man, says Mr. Bernays, on the Government bench whom the Opposition not merely respect but fear. Echocs of the spacious days of the Edwardian era are surely stirred by the spectacle Joseph Chamberlain's son succeed ug. to the office which so elusively efcoped both his tather and his elder
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