Whatever turf the international situation may take in the coming
weeks, it is difficult to see how a General Elec- tion can be held this autumn. Yet it is being confidently asserted, in some quarters, that an election will be held, and that it will be fought entirely on the personality of the Prime Minister. It is asserted, too, that it is not improbable that it will take the form of a coupon election, and that those who have opposed Mr. Chamberlain in the past will find themselves outside the official fold. To include Mr. Churchill or Mr. Eden in the Government immediately before an Election would certainly give the appearance of deliberate intent to influence the result of the Election ; while not to include them is almost bound to lose, for the Government, a great part of the floating vote. But Conservatives are confident that with a Danzig settlement to his further credit the Prime Minister will sweep the country with a personal appeal.
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