We desire to associate ourselves with the protest made in
a leading article in Friday's Times against the most unfair and most prejudicial attempts which have been made to exhibit Mr. Winston Churchill in an unfavourable light because he has made so much use of the official Admiralty yacht, the Enchantress.' We should not quarrel with Mr. Churchill over this matter even if it could be shown that he used the yacht for " pleasure trips." Ministers have every right to enjoy such scanty leisure as they have, and undoubtedly they will do their public work the better for such enjoyment. As a matter of fact, however, the yacht has been used by Mr. Churchill for official purposes. That Ministers who lay themselves open to criticism for actions really unbecoming should be criticized is not only right but absolutely necessary. Petty and meaningless and unjust criticism such as that to which Mr. Winston Churchill was exposed in the matter of the Enchantress ' is most strongly to be deprecated. It is an offence alike against good manners and good morals.
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