10 OCTOBER 1931, Page 11

• " What -Mr. MacDonald has been unable to do

he hopes that general elections will bring about. That is showing an extraordinary trust in the twenty-eight millions who make up the electorate, the bulk of whom do not understand in the slightest political or economic questions. Things have come to this. But there is one thing pretty clear, that the English people, in London and' in tlife Provinces, are somewhat out of humour with these secret ministerial confabulations, the details of which are coneealed, and all this is not exactly calculated' -to give the nation much confidence."--Journal des Debals (Paris), 7.10.81.