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Your leading editorial for October 29, entitled "Conservative Labour" comments on the collapse of the British Labour Party with enthusiasm but with little knowledge. The whole editorial is notable for the fund of ignorance which it displays. I quote the last paragraph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drink Her Down | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...basically Conservative British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself--which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drink Her Down | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...know that it was the "spirit of fair play" that motivated British voters in returning the Labour Party to power, but it does seem a shame that this same spirit should not have swept them on to giving the Labour government the "full rein" mentioned in the editorial. Perhaps such an excess of "fair play" would not have been in accord with what the editorial writer so aptly calls "the fundamental soundness of the English nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drink Her Down | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...basically Conservative, British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATIVE LABOUR | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

...able adman, Sir Charles describes himself in the latest British Who's Who thus: "Freeman of the City of London; organized the first battalion of Volunteers at outbreak of war; keenly interested in all questions affecting Labour: lectures on practical lines of the problem between Capital and Labour; advocate for better living conditions for the workers, better paying and training for teachers, and happier child-life among the masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Taunt | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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