. The case of the eighteen Fascists who were arrested
on Saturday in consequence of their activities at an East Anglian farm, where a tithe dispute was in progress, is at present sub judice and I therefore, of course, make no comment on the event itself. It was obviously a matter of considerable interest, and I was curious to see how the Daily Mail, that unofficial recruiting-agent for the Fascist organization, would deal with it, The Times, naturally, gave it considerable prominence at the top of a column with a three-line heading. The Daily Telegraph, the News-Chronicle and other papers did much the same. In the Daily Mail I finally ran it to earth in a paragraph of 13 lines under a small single heading more than halfway down a column on one of the less important pages. Whether Lord Rothermere has dropped the Fascists a further study of the Daily Mail will no doubt reveal. Meanwhile the Mail in its circulation race with the Express and Herald has scored several points in the last week or two with its interviews with Herr Hitler and General Goering, its acquisition of Charles Dickens' Life of Christ and its wonderful picture, on Monday, of King Albert lying in state at Laeken.
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