Mr. Churchill's Misfortune Mr. Winston Churchill is not the first
Englishman to fall victim to the Fifth Avenue traffic stream, nor will he be the last. You cannot develop the habit of per- petually looking left in your first week in New York. But his accident, quite apart from the physical conse- quences, came at a moment when disablement was particularly unwelcome, for it means serious interference with a lecture-tour of which the first lucrative engagement had been deliberately sacrificed in order that the lecturer might take part in the Indian debate in the House of Commons. Mr. Churchill has as many political opponents as most men, and the Spectator is undisguisedly among them on many questions, but our sympathy with him in his present misfortune is sincere, and our satisfaction that he is apparently making a good recovery unreserved.
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