Among the statements attributed to Mr. Baldwin which chiefly mused
surprise were the following : that the Trust Press was breaking up—" the Daily Mail is dead ; it has no soul " ; that Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, was a great journalist, "but this man!" —an eloquent aposiopesis dismissing Lord Rothermere ; that Lord Beaverbrook, by means of a curious friendship with Mr. Bonar Law, had got his finger into the pie where it had no business to be ; that Lord Birkenhead would be a liability to the Unionist Party ; that the article in English Life (to which the Spectator referred recently) was "a pretty dirty bit of work"; and that Mr. Churchill was plotting intrigue. The editor of the People issued a statement to the effect that the interview was an accurate record of what occurred. The one comment which we may make here is that the proper practice should have been followed of submitting a proof to Mr. Baldwin. This was not done, and the editor thus put himself in the wrong.
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