It was Sir. Stafford Cripps. who gave Mr. Churchill his
first opportunity to- draw blood; on an amendment designed to take the appointment of the Viceroy out of Party politics, Sir Stafford, who usually gets his effects by calmness and restraint, suddenly lashing himself into a fury of indignation on the subject of the appointment of Judges in this country, and asserting that "It is perfectly well known that in the past there have been some scandalous appointments made on a political basis by the Conservative Party in this country." These sinister suggestions, further developed in response to an interruption, were immediately seized upon by Mr. Churchill, and Sir Stafford later explained them away, but his odd outburst caused a good deal of comment: Following on his speech last week, when he adopted towards Mr. Oliver Stanley the manner of a bullying lawyer with a reluctant witness, Members are asking themselves whether his platform philippics in the country are not causing him to lose his sense of the House of Commons.
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