MR CHAMBERLAIN'S LEADERSHIP [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Your
correspondent who finds fault with Mr. Chamberlain's leading has an extraordinary notion of what constitutes criticism.
An author recently complained that when he published a book of short stories certain critics at once said he would have done better to write a full-dress novel ; when he gave them this he was told he would have excelled in the short story. Similarly your correspondent catalogues the Prime Minister's acts only to blame him for not doing something different, preferably the opposite. When Mr. Chamberlain goes to Chequers he ought to have stayed in London ; if he flies to Munich he should have remained at home, or at least not have travelled by air ; if he snatches a brief holiday in Scotland he will catch more than fish through deserting his duties in Downing Street ; should he ever happen to think of the right thing, he chooses the wrong time for action.
But to the jaundiced eye everything looks yellow.
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