The Socialists, whose chief /weapon today is the alleged weakness of the Governments foreign policy, are bitterly disappointed at the Stafford by-election where, in spite of their strenuous efforts and Mr. Lloyd George's oratory in its most Limehouse manner, the Government improved its position by 700 votes as compared with 1935. But the op-Position do not present a happy spectacle. The Popular Front, preached by Mr. Lloyd George's Council of Action and the Communists, rejected by official Labour, has now been spurned by the Ca-operative Congress at Scarborough after hot debating. Internally the Opposition are at sixes and sevens, and they have no leaders who "catch the eye" as did some of the first Labour leaders.
I am quoting the opinion of one who is representative of that, large body of Englishmen whose votes are decided not by political labels but by practical common sense. For such as these, and they probably played ya large part at Stafford, there is little hope that the Opposition's foreign policy would do better than Mr. Chamberlain's
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