11 AUGUST 1923, Page 2

When as Governor of Massachusetts he broke the great strike

of the Boston police, he took the view that the police were under a special contract, quasi-military in nature, and therefore under• a peculiar obligation to the State, and that their strike could not be regarded as an ordinary industrial dispute. There could be no justification, he said, for a strike against the public safety in any circumstances. His local though important triumph was considered enough to justify the Republican party in nominating him as Vice-President. He declares that he has no other -wish than to carry out the wishes of Mr. Harding. He is a firm but cautious Conservative whose most' striking characteristics seem to be reserve and silence on all occasions when silence is at all admissible.