WHY HE FAILS.
Summing up a decidedly caustic article on Mr. Winston Churchill, in which his inconsistencies in office and his trick of getting under the limelight are relentlessly exposed, the Spectator concludes as follows :—: — i "If we compare Mr. Churchill with tho great statesmen of 'the past, or even of the present — for example, his chief, Mr. Asquith — there rises to the mind the stanza in which Matthew Arnold set forth the secret of the failure of the Roman Empire. We may apply it to him with a very slight variation :—: — "Stout was its arm, each thew and bone Seemed puissant and alive. But, ah ! its heart, its heart was stone, And so it could not thrive." IlereSis the reason why ; in spite of his physical courage, his quickness of brain, his eloquence, his power to charm those , of whom he wants something at the moment, his insight, and his capacity, he fails, and must fail, as a statesman. He is inhuman, like all egoists."'
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 15
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