Mr. Winston Churchill, who was the principal speaker at a
miners' demonstration held at Swansea on Saturday, dealt at length with foreign affairs. With what he said about the " wonderful revolution in Turkey," beyond its excessive optimism, we have no cause for complaint. On the subject of our relations with Germany, he was perfectly justified in asking his hearers to join with him in "saying that far and wide throughout the masses of the British Dominions there is no feeling of towards Germany," and on the other hand he did well to assure them that "no Government which is in power in this country in the near future, or likely to be in power, will depart in any degree from the naval policy which shall secure us effectively from outside invasion." Unfor- tunately Mr. Churchill did not content himself with in- geminating peace in more or less strident tones, and his reference to the weighty warnings of Lord Cromer in the House of Lords as " wild language" comes with a singular inopportuneness from so impetuous and aggressive a speaker as the President of the Board of Trade.
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