We have dealt elsewhere with Mr. Winston Churchill's extraordinary reckless
and unwise use of language about the judges, language which, we have pointed out, is bound to create an impression that they do not act fairly and impar- tially when they have trade-union cases before them, but owing to their private prejudices twist the law in class interests, and are not therefore to be trusted. No doubt Mr. Winston Churchill did not mean to say quite as much as this, but it is astonishing that a man of his experience and position should not realize the danger, not to say the injustice, of using the words he used—words which, whatever may have been his intentions, were clearly open to misrepresentation, and certain to excite suspicion in the minds of working men, and so bring the Bench into popular odium. If you denounce men as pre- judiced in the exercise of a great duty, such odium will attach, whether you do or do not slip in some limiting phrase, such as "unconsciously, no doubt." The main accusation is remembered ; the hedging words forgotten.
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