News of the Week
St. George's THE old practice was for Party leaders not to intervene directly in by-elections, but that restraint was broken down some years ago—by Mr. Lloyd George, we think —and Mr. Baldwin's appearance in the fray of St. George's on Tuesday was not nearly so startling to the modern mind as it would have been to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Baldwin was justified, we think, not only in his intervention, but in the force of his language. We have Written in a leading article about the issue ; it has been distorted in every imaginable way. If Lord Ileaverbrook and Lord Rothermere were now, or gradually, to acquire the power of determining who the leader of the Unionist Party should be they would be an extra-Parliamentary power able to make and unmake Governments. * , * *
