2 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 6

Mr. Baldwin at the same luncheon relapsed more readily than

is common with him into &chi. He saw no prospect, he observed, of going back to the party dog-fight of the old days. The party dog-fight ! So that is the now approved description of the great party- system which through the nineteenth century and before it made the Parliament of this country supreme among the legislatures of the world. Pitt and Fox, Wellington and Grey, Gladstone and Disraeli, Asquith and Bonar Law—did they represent tradition and conviction, or simply faction and canine belligerence ? Mr. Baldwin himself would have an undisputed place in that great catalogue if he had not suddenly discovered that the whole thing was only a dog-fight after all.