25 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 3

The Labour Opposition must be the worst tacticians in Parliamentary

history. If they had framed a resolution in moderate terms, simply expressing sympathy with and support for Mr. Eden, they would almost certainly have been joined in the lobby by a respectable number of Conservatives. Instead, they tabled a fUll-blooded vote of censure and selected Mr. Greenwood to move it. Of all the members of their Front Bench, Mr. Greenwood is the most certain to put up the backs of his political opponents. Even so, a body of about twenty Government supporters ostentatiously abstained from voting. They included Mr. Churchill, Mr. Harold Nicolson and several of the most promising of the younger Conservatives. * * * *