Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere The Daily Telegraph has made
a hot attack on Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere whom it accuses of breaking the pledge which Lord Bcaverbrook gave to Mr. Baldwin and to which Lord Rothermere immediately afterwards adhered. Lord Beaverbrook, as we pointed out at the time, surrendered to Mr. Baldwin, but the Daily Telegraph complains that since then he has been urging his Crusaders to " go straight for the goal of duties on foreign foodstuffs without concealment or hesitation." Lord Rothermere is accused of trans- gressing even further in his attempt to defeat Mr. Baldwin's policy of the " free hand." The Daily Mail, to be precise, said that Mr. Chamberlain had given " pledges regarding food taxes, and that it was necessary to popularise the policy which Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Chamberlain have deliberately adopted."
It is by methods of this kind," says the Daily Telegraph, 6` that it is sought to delude the public into believing that the Party is tied to food taxes." The Unionist Party is certainly not " tied " to food taxes, though it seems improbable that it would be able to complete its scheme of Imperial fiscal reform without them.
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