17 JANUARY 1925, Page 1
Mr. Churchill, knowing that the experts have all the figures
in their heads and can be trusted to work out the details, insisted that the Cowie-mime should confine itself to principles. The ability to reduce a complicated series of conflicting propositions to their elements is the chief '- sign of statesmanship. Ordinary people must have often noticed with amazement how a great man of affairs seems able to bring order out of chaos, to cancel out • factors which do not matter, and finally to state the . issue as something brief and simple enough to be written • on a sheet of notepaper. The process- all looks so easy that it is sometimes difficult to detect the wide experi- ence and the high reasoning power which reside behind • the performance.
