14 JUNE 1935, Page 6

One other word on the Cabinet changes. It is rumoured

that Lord Halifax, having gone temporarily to the War Office, intends to retire from active political life after the General Election. If there is any grain of truth in that, I hope all the new War Minister's friends will urge him to relinquish any such idea. There is no one who could more ill be spared, for there is no one in public life who in such full measure combines character, conviction, ability and, it may be added, personal charm—all of them demonstrated already on the most exacting stage in the world. It must never be written of him that he to York- shire (or any other place, or cause) gave up what was meant for mankind.