We cannot think that the enthusiasm of Mr. Neville Chamberlain
and Lord Weir is false or unfounded, because, as we have seen, they are perfectly willing to let the public judge for itself. The public will be able to say whether Mr. MacDonald was justified when he spoke it cently of a steel house as being like "a grey blotch on a beautiful face." Mr. Churchill, referring to that phrase in a speech on Wednesday night, remarked that there is such a thing as being more nice than wise, and that " Ease before elegance" is a very sound proverb. "We are not," he added, "going to be deterred from pressing on actively in this policy of housing by any of those sniffs and sneers at the forms of the buildings it may be necessary to erect." There again is the principle of the emergency house—which with good luck may turn out to be a very satisfactory kind of house indeed.
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