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in the House of Commons.
To pass over Lord Sankey and
to appoint a Commoner would
therefore be an unprecedented
departure from precedent.
I agree that precedent is
not everything and if Sankey
had been an indifferent, or
even a lukewarm Oxonian;
or if he was known to hold
views on religion or morals which
would be offensive to Oxford
men, precedent would have
to be put aside.

The dominating consideration
in my mind is the interest