MR OLIVER STANLEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 8

MR OLIVER STANLEY

OUTLOOK FAR FROM REACTIONARY IBy Air Mail —From Our Own Correspondent J LONDON. 3rd March Westminster has followed with some concern the sudden illness of the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Oliver Stanley, whose condition is now very much better. Mr Stanley is regarded as one of the intellectuals of the Conservative Party, and I can think of only one other Cabinet Minister. Mr W S Morrison, who could be relied on to give an equally concise and reasoned exposition of Conservative doctrine Mr Stanley's outlook is far from reactionary—there are not more than a dozen Tory diehards at Westminster now—and he is counted as an asset in the recruitment to Government ranks of the younger generation. I have never seen him rattled in debate. Tall, and with his eyes twinkling behind his spectacles. he sits back on ihe Front Bench, pushing his fingers through his greying hair while cannon roars on the Left Wing. His manner when replying is good humoured, almost diffident. This conciliatory style seems to go down well at Westminster. It is one of Earl Baldwin’s Parliamentary legacies. He never denounced anybody.