15 DECEMBER 1923, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THAT most unsatisfactory of consolations—the right of " I told you so ! "—is the only one which the Spectator can feel at the result of the elections. Mr. Baldwin has succeeded in making history, but he has succeeded in making nothing else. He has cut short what seemed to be an era of Conservative rule four years before its time, and hurried forward the wheel of change at a time when even the most progressive stand in doubt. * * *