11 APRIL 1931, Page 3

Mr. Churchill and Mr. Baldwin Mr. Churchill conceived that he

was treated with some discourtesy when Mr. Baldwin announced, without warn- ing Mr. Churchill, that Mr. Neville Chamberlain would speak for the Unionist Party in criticism of the Budget. Mr. Churchill evidently imagined that although he had resigned from the Business Committee of the Party (as the Shadow Cabinet is now called) he remained Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Baldwin's alleged dis- courtesy was nothing more than the natural assumption that as Mr. Churchill had left the Business Committee he had also left the Finance Committee.