LABOUR PRIME MINISTER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 16

LABOUR PRIME MINISTER

LORD LEE'S PROPHECY FOX CHEQUES.

."A pretty prognostic is being fulfilled in the person ot the Prime Minister at Chequers," says tho "Daily Express." "The last time Lord Lee stayed there, before giving up his home to the Prime Ministers, he was filled, like one' ot the old seers, with the spirit of prophecy. He was leaning over a gate looking at his purebred Herefords when the inspiration came upon him 1 look forward to the day'—he said to 'his companion—'when a Labour Prime Minister shall be in power, and shall come down hero like King Arthur, to 'cure him of Ins grievous wound." Ho expained what that mental and moral 'wound was.' The great' clanger of Lnbour m control,' ho argued, 'is that the experience of Ministers will have been wholly in towns, and their minds and interests will have become absorbing urban and oppidan. My hope is that they will come down here to Chequers and unconsciously absorb the spirit of the deep, deep country.' He pointed to that .green and spacious valley, cut off from the world, a thousand miles in spirit from .London, a piece of English England of irresistible inllucnce. He spolToof the power of Chequers thus direct Iv preserving the health of the lint'lish people through their Ministers. °'J( 3 ' work,' he said in effect, 'is to dem-baniso the minds o( British rulers, especially if they have 'been bred in towns.' :'