A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE " New Party " meeting at the Caxton Hall on Wednesday evening was by all accounts something between a disaster and a farce, and the new party may, I imagine, be written off as dead before it is born. What has happened is that a move well worth making, initiated by a number of serious and responsible people, has been ruined by the folly of others. The original small group intended to expand on Wednesday into a rather larger group of some thirty or forty and discuss future plans, which incidentally would not have included the formation of a new party. Instead of that someone, or perhaps several someones, had issued invitations broadcast, with the result that a singular and heterogeneous collection of people assembled, necessi- tating a move from the small hall which had been engaged into a larger one, and towards the end of the meeting practically all the people round whom an effective movement could have been built walked out. The diligence of Mr. Randolph Churchill before and at the meeting does not seem to have helped matters. Nor did Mr. Victor Fisher.
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