1 NOVEMBER 1935, Page 3

But' his appointment would .still further upset the balance of

Parties in the National Government, par- ticularly as I hear on good authority that Lord Halifax is unlikely to be persuaded to continue in office after the Election. Since the death of his father he has been coin- pelled to pay increased attention to his Yorkshire estates, and when the Government was reconstructed last June he wanted to go out of the Cabinet, and only 'consented to remain at the urgent request of. Mr. BaldWin. It will not be easy for the Prime Minister to find a Liberal or Left Wing Conservative•of sufficient weight to reduce the adverse Conservative balance created by the presence of Mr. Churchill and the absence of Lord Halifax.