Common Sense and the Peace Ballot The very sensible replies
given by Mr. Marcus Samuel, the Conservative candidate at Putney, to the so-called Peace Ballot questions may with profit be commended to some of Mr. Samuel's fellow-Conservatives who by denouncing the ballot, or ostentatiously dissociating -themselves from it, have done much more than members of other political camps to make the affair a party question. Mr. Samuel thinks the ballot is not the best way to prove that the country is behind the Governmont .and the League (though he does not suggest a better) and like everyone he deplores the "political squabbles " -to which the project has given rise.. But he has answered .the questions fully and thoughtfully, thereby focusing .the minds of the electors of Putney very usefully on the -.vital issues raised. His method will do a good deal more lot-- the Conservative. Party, the Government and the League than the denunciations of Mr. Amery and Sir Bolton Eyres-MonselL
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