Mr. Baldwin's Speech Mr. Baldwin, who spoke in the Queen's
Hall on Tuesday afternoon, had to pass when he arrived through an avenue of sandwich men who bore the scandalously tendentious legend, " A vote for Duff Cooper is a vote for Gandhi." He described the newspapers of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere as " engines of propaganda for the constantly changing policies, desires, personal wishes and personal likes and dislikes of two men." He declared that their methods were " misrepresentation, half truths and suppression." The Daily Mail had said that the leader of a Party who had lost his own fortune was not the man to restore that of the nation.. Mr. Baldwin did not, of course, mention the details of his own case —that he subordinated. all his interests to public service and had handed over a quarter of his capital to the Government in the War. What he did say was that he had been legally advised, that an action for libel would lie and that he could get an .apology and heavy damages. " An apology," he exclaimed, " would have no value, and the damages I would not touch with a barge pole." * * -* *
