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7, AUDLEY SQUARE, W.1.

DlCTATED

bamboozled.

Things have now reached a lull, a dangerous and suspect lull.
We are nursing our wounds, wondering if our enemies have forgotten and
if our friends can forgive. We extricated ourselves from the domestic
and Parliamentary dilemma with success, owing to the clumsiness of the
Socialists, whose attack was mean in itself and comtemptible in its ineptitude.
It is lucky that both Churchill and Lloyd George were sunning
themselves on either side of the Pillars of Hercules. Rothermere too
is registered in those parts, and the trio will have talked a lot of
mischief. They would certainly have stimulated our anxieties at home.
The youthful Churchill has just arrived to fight Macdonald in the Ross
by-election - not very ingratiating on his part, having recently split
the National vote in Liverpool. He has a bitter grievance against the
Central Office here for supporting a Socialist in the constituency now
called BOSS & CROMARTY! Churchill père is perhaps not sorry to be absent,
in view of his claims to a post during the next few weeks, when
sundry changes of office may be expected. Rothermere and Beaverbrook,
at one moment - though equally hostile to the League of Nations and
anxious for a deal with Italy - shewed signs of reviving the vendetta
against Baldwin. But the movement died out, and it was noticed how inbroadly
effective was the support given to the Laval-Hoare proposals, which commended
themselves to the Daily Mail-Express point of view. The leading
articles were badly written and curiously unconvincing - invective, in