1 JUNE 1929, Page 1

The "Baldwin Letter" Together with the usual election literature sent

out by the Unionist agents there was sent a photographic facsimile of a letter from Mr. Baldwin. Nailing could have been more restrained and more innocent than Mr. Baldwin's appeal. His one argument was that the Unionist Party alone could provide "continuity of policy and stability of government." Yet an outrageous offence was discovered in the fact that the letter bore the royal arms on the- of the paper and was not furnished, as is requird by the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act, with the name of a printer or publisher. The', complaint about the presence of the royal arms conveyed the accusation that Mr. Baldwin was improperly bringing the Crown into Party warfare, and had, indeed, descended to a shockingly unconstitutional act. The Baldwin letter was almost worse than the Zinovieff letter I