PEOPLE AND PRESS
THE BALDWIN VICTORY
SCENE AT ANNOUNCEMENT
LONDON, 20th March. Spoakiiifi after the declaration of the poll in I he St. George's by-election, Mr. Duff-Cooper, the successful candidate, said: "The election is of national importance in demonstrating that the public, whatever its political faith, will not be dictated to by a certain section of Iho Press." Sir Ernest Better, the defeated Empire Crusader and Beavcrbrook-Both-more candidate, declared that the election al. least stirred the ■ complacent mandarins of the Conservative Party. There wns tenso excitement at the close, and the great crowd outside Caxtou Hull, Westnviustcr, while the voting was in progress, included many society women in evening dress, who came on from restaurants and theatres to hear the declaration. A force of mounted police was stationed in tho vicinity in case of disorder, but it was not used. The crowd—certainly tho most aristocratic ever associated with a byelection —cheered loudly when it was announced that Mr. Duff-Cooper had won.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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161PEOPLE AND PRESS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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