News of the Week The General Election B Y the time
this number of the Spectator is in the hands of most of our readers all the doubts of the General Election will be at rest...2in these circumstances. our advice would be superfluous ; prophecy would run the risk of looking exceedingly foolish. We will confine our remark's to a few incidents of the past few days. There had been a rumour, without foundation, that the Unionist Party had something .up its sleeve—something comparable' with the Zinovieff letter—which womld be produced at the last moment with shattering effect. We do not ourselves think that the Zinovieff letter had anything like the effect attributed to it. We have all learned algood deal Jduring the present campaign about the reflectiveness of the electorate, and probably most people are less inclined than they were to- believe that masses of voters can.be rushed suddenly from, one. camp into another by a sensation. But however . that may be, the Labour and Liberal speakers, for want of any fulfil- ment of their rumour, tried to exalt an innocent appeal to the electors by .Mr. Baldwin into the equivalent of a dastardly surprise..
