DANGEROUSLY IN A HURRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16331, 21 January 1921, Page 8

DANGEROUSLY IN A HURRY.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL. JOURNALISTIC CRITICISM. Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian ond N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 21, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. The “ Manchester Guardian ” states that Ministerialists were making a nervous effort to excuse Mr Winston Churchill's appointment as Colonial Secretary even before it was announced. Mr Churchill had showed a considerable measure of constructive imagination and administrative energy, as fn the rescue of war tanks from the waste paper basket of officialism, hut administration of a-more patient sort yos required f afc the Colonial Office. Mr Churchill's head was always humming with possible master strokes or original or audacious actions. ‘ lie is always dangerously in a hurry, 9 ’ -the paper continues, “and will bring to Imperial affairs a get-rich-quick tempera merit which in business makes a few millionaires but mary; bankrupts. The colonies do not need i to bo the scenes _of gigantic flutters. M hat is wanted is Iho administration the elder Chamberlain gave the colonies.”