GARDEN PARTY POLITICS
_ The Battle of Waterloo is said to liave been won on the playing fields of Eton and Harrow. By a somewhat similar process of reasoning, the National Party, by its zeal in promoting garden parties, appears to hope that the next election will be won amid suburban lawns and flower beds.
The hospitality dispensed at such functions is no doubt pleasant enough, but it is doubtful -whether what occurs there, over the teacups, will ever convert a vacillating voter, even though the dailies in their wisdom may decide that a political garden party' is worth a column and ahalf of space while the tour of the Minister, of Public Works in the Thames electorate. can be dismissed In the same issue with a bare six inches.—" Observer” leading article, January 27.
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Grey River Argus, 11 February 1938, Page 10
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