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Last week West Derbyshire chose the cobbler's son, gave Winston Churchill and his Coalition Government a resounding sock in the eye. The vote: for slim 26-year-old Lieut. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 11,775; for paunchy, greying (52) independent socialist Charlie White...
Symbolic Temper. Through all but five of the last 210 years a Cavendish, or a relative of one, has represented West Derbyshire. In 1918 the family lost the seat to White's father. In 1923 Lord Hartington's father, now the Duke of Devonshire, regained it for the Cavendishes. In last week's contest, Churchill intervened with an explosive plea for Cavendishes & Coalition: "It would indeed be a disaster if Britain, after the great things she has done, went to pieces and fell into petty squabbles. . . . These by-elections are . . . symbolic and electors by their votes...
...Lord Hartington's agent toured the constituency astride Paddy, five-year-old son of famed Derby winner Papyrus, drumming up votes...
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...each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke of Devonshire (Conservative), who fought for the Empire in Egypt, at the Dardanelles and in France...