IF THE GOD’S LAUGH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 278, 24 November 1931, Page 6

IF THE GOD’S LAUGH

JF THE GODS LAUGH they must surely be indulging their humour to-day. In England, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the leader of the British Labour Party .since the death of Mr. J. Keir Hardie, now finds himself at the head of a Cabinet predominantly Tory. Mr. Philip Snowden, who has been the arch democrat of three decades, now finds himself in the calm, serene, seldom disturbed, House of Lords, and himself bearing the title of a Peer of the Realm. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the leader of the Conservative Party, and a man in whom is reposed great confidence, is playing second’ fiddle to a man who has no party at all. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, after playing a prominent role in British polities all his life, watches his half-brother in the Chancellor’s seat, a position to which he himself had great claims. Mr. Winston Churchill, who was welcomed with open arms as a prodigal returned, and for whom the fatted calf of politics was killed so that he might be Chancellor of the Exchequer. sits among the mob below- the gangway. Even the first, seat below the gangway which was occupied by another Lord Randolph Churchill has been taken possession of by another. And Mr. George Lansbnry, as leader of the Labour Party, is one of the best jokes of all. That, however, doesn’t mean that Dansbury is a fool 1 fie is a very astute old man. There are other jokes which tho Gods have provided themselves with in British polities, but these are the major mirfliprovokera.