Mr. Baldwin and His Party
At a meeting of the Central Council' of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations on Tuesday, Mr. Baldwin expressed the belief that his party was the only united party. He was not far wrong. When the Prime- Minister of Canada made his offer of reciprocal Imperial Preferences Mr. Baldwin threw his hat into the air and we remarked then that he had good cause for his elation. He had been -saved from all his immediate embarrassments.He has, however, been saved more handsomely than we thought possible. The rebels in his party having been granted a secret ballot on the question of the leadership agreed in advance to abide by the vote of the majority. The result is that
the rebellion has collapsed. Conservatives like Mr. Gretton and Sir Henry Page Croft are now to be heard speaking loyally of Mr. Baldwin us their only possible leader. Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook — temporarily perhaps—have become phantoms.
