We shall, I suppose, never know the full facts about
the Daily Mail's ballot on war and sanctions, to which I made some reference last week. On Monday the results were published, with a Singular form of authentication by a well-known firm of chartered accountants—singular, because the certificate said not one word on the one question relevant, the number of votes cast. Neither did the Daily Mail. The results are in every case expressed simply in mere percentages (25 per cent. in favour of economic sanctions, 75 per cent. against, and so on), and on the whole they reveal the number even of Daily Mail readers content with the Government's policy as unexpectedly large. But how many readers did record their votes ? The Three Tailors of Tooley Street' could cast a 2 to 1 vote, as Daily Mail voters did on the question of leaving the League, but I admit each of them would have to be twins to register the 5 to 1 division recorded on another issue.
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