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Cartoonist Strube of the Daily Express acknowledged the epidemic with a drawing (see cut) in which all Britain's political leaders were disguised as Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
...Britain to win him an election on oratory alone, but it seemed more than likely that he would not lack for financial and press backing. Ever since Stanley Baldwin beat them so decisively on the question of a protective tariff (TIME, Nov. 10), the Press Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook have thirsted for revenge, hunted for a champion. Britons waited last week to see if Winston Churchill was to become that champion, whether the Rothermere- Beaverbrook-Churchill combination would be strong enough to unhorse plodding Leader Baldwin...
...cannonball Protectionist," he began, alluding to obstreperous Conservative Baron Beaverbrook. "Nor am I an acid drop Free Trader," this shot being, of course, for Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
Enemies pointed out that the vote lines up more than one-quarter of the Conservative Party against its Leader, a most ominous percentage. Next day the Beaverbrook cohorts were again in triumphant fettle, had a new reason why the Leader should resign...
...constituency of South Paddington (in which stands London's famed Paddington Station) a by-election had just been held. South Paddington has been almost immemorially Conservative, but last week the regular Conservative candidate, the Baldwin candidate, Sir Herbert Lidiard, lost to the Beaverbrook candidate, Vice-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor. At the next election Baron Beaverbrook, unless chosen Mr. Baldwin's successor, threatens to run his own candidates in constituencies all over England. His success last week made it seem that Mrs. Baldwin and Divine Providence must work overtime to save their Stanley...