Under the beading "Mr. Churchill and the Heptarchy " a
letter from Mr. John Chartres appears in Monday's Times. Starting from Mr. Churchill's assertion at Dundee that he was "speaking his own thoughts on the question," Mr. Chartres points out that the plan has not even the merit of originality. It was propounded by Mr. Lloyd George in an interview which was printed in the Pall Mall Magazine for June 1905, in which Mr. Lloyd George said that he wanted local self-government not only for Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but for the West of England and for Yorkshire, winding up with the declaration, "My ideal is the Heptarehy." The humour of the situation is heightened by the fact that in 1904 Mr. Churchill declared that there were two things he would never vote for—Home Rule and Protection, adding that " if there was no room in the House of Commons for a man who would support neither, he would have to stop outside."
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