VERDICT APPROVED
"TIMES" EDITORIAL
THE DAILY DEMAGOGUES
(Times Cables.) LONDON, 20th March. "The Westminster election deserves its prominence in current political history," says a leader in "The Times." "Mr. Duff-Cooper's victory is a discerning tribute to his high political courage and capacity. "The verdict will be greeted with wide, unqualified satisfaction for reasons embracing much more than Mr. Baldwin's future or the Conservative fortunes. St. George's has done a good day's work for democracy and the Press. "The electorate tested the contemptuous assumption that it could be swayed by crude asservations, some of which were unbelievably puerile, especially the panic at the name of Mr. Gandhi. "If Mr. Gandhi becomes as much an object .of ' timid superstition in England as in India, he owes such prominence to this discreditable newspaper campaign. ''The victory is a most welcome assurance that, the immense Imperial interest!! ami obligations now committed to adult suffrage arc not necessarily at. the mercy of daily demagogues, even in a constituency exposed at close range to a foaming torrent of misrepresentation;' Tim section of the Press which supported Sir Ernest Potter is silent ediloriallv regarding the result of the byI elect ion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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194VERDICT APPROVED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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