THE UNITED EMPIRE PARTY
[To the Editok of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—You must be congratulated. In an age of profiteers you alone stand forth a true prophet. On Friday, February 28th, you published my letter on the Baldwin of 1930 deserting the Baldwin of 1923, and that, as consulting physician, Lord Beaverbrook had been called in. From that very day
Mr. Baldwin's readjustment with his former self began ! By the next Tuesday the Morning Post announced that he had had a swim either in the Beaver Brook—or was it the Rother Mere ? Well, Sir, what is the future to be ?
Can you prophesy that ? If not, I will. Here is the horo- scope cast by a great political magician sonic seventy years ago :
" You have become united to Free Trade . . . and you must ,take the consequences. And the consequence I venture to predict will be that the Rouse of Commons, after a fair, full and ample trial of this great measure, will be driven to repeal it from absolute necessity—though at the cost of much national suffering."—(Buckle, Life of Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, iii. 23).
—I am, Sir, &e., A. H. T. CLARKE.
The Rectory, Devizes.
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