Particularly ridiculous was Mr. Churchill's frantic effort to rush to
the assistance of the only person in the Press, as far as we know, who still takes him seriously or regards him as a patriotic statesman. He insisted that Ministers had said much more alarming things than had Mr. Massingham, and that therefore the Nation ought to be given licence to indulge in a full Saturday's saturnalia of lugubrious platitudes, not only for this country, for no one has any desire to prevent the Nation from addressing its own fellow- countrymen, but outside the United Kingdom. Mr. Churchill &tows here a lamentable want of political education. This quick- change artist has played many parts and picked up scraps of knowledge in many directions, but, as far as we remember, he never obtained even a smattering of legal learning. It is a pity, for he would then have known that what is of vital importance in the case of crime is the animus.
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