English Public life is singularly free from jobbery, and the
readiness of the average man to resent the smallest sespicion of it is striking. The average man, so far. as I have come across him, refuses resolutely to reconcile hirnself to one appointment in the Government, that of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald as Colonial Secretary, or to abandon the 'con-vie Lion that the appointment would never have been made if the new .Colonial Secretary had not been his father's son. This is very hard on the Colonial Secretary himself, for everything in his public life justifies high estimate both of his honour and of his ability. It is not he who' is the target of criticism, but the Prime Minister. Mr. Baldwin, in my judgment, may find that this appointment has cost him a good many votes— though it would not cost NM mine.
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