4 OCTOBER 1935, Page 6

The ballot which the .Daily Mail has suddenly sprung on

its readers on the question of League action if Italy attacks Abyssinia can, so far as I can see, mean nothing at all, unless a substantial proportion of votes is cast against the free-hand-for-Mussolini policy which Lord Rothermere has for weeks past been urging on his readers. And that is, on the whole, unlikely. For readers of the Daily Mail are mostly people who pay a penny for their, news and get their opinions for nothing. They have been told what to think, and they no doubt think it.

JAN 2S.