Lady Violet Bonham-Carter's letter in Tuesday's Times on Mr. E.
L. Gandar Dower's seat at Caithness and Sutherland will, I should imagine, take a lot of answering. Mr. Gandar Dower stood as a
Conservative against a Liberal (Sir Archibald Sinclair, who had pre- viously held the seat) and a Labour man, and won it by a very bare head. The figures, in fact, were a curiosity, for the Conservative scored 5,564, the Labour candidate 5,558 and the Liberal 5,503.
Mr. Gandar Dower based a strong appeal to the electorate on the declaration that he regarded this as a war-time election and that at the end of the Japanese war he would resign and submit himself for re-election. Lady Violet quotes three explicit declarations by Mr. Gandar Dower to that effect, one from the candidate's election address. That was in the middle of 1945. On November 21st, 1946, Mr. Gandar Dower is still M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland.
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