The more one hears Mr. Churchill speaking on the various
aspects of national defence the more strange does it seem that he snould not be called in to preside over one or other of the fighting services or to co-ordinate all three. Mr. Amcry is known to be a thoroughly capable administrator, and in his case it is difficult to perceive any particular in which his views differ from those of the Prime Minister. Among the younger men on the opposite wing, it has always been hard to understand the continued exclusion from office of Mr. Harold Macmillan In 1936 he did indeed spend some months in the wilderness, but he has now been received back, and only a few weeks ago broke a long silence with a speech of remarkable quality. It is to be hoped that Mr. Chamberlain will not continue the Baldwin tradition of promoting only those of his young men who have never caused the Chief Whip a moment's anxiety.
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