17 MARCH 1939, Page 6

Lord Ronaldshay's selection as Conservative candidate for Bath seems to

involve again the relationship between local committees and the Conservative Central Office. A local Conservative, Captain Adrian Hopkins, who has sufficient local prestige to be chosen as Mayor of Bath for the present year, would have been glad to stand. There may be good reasons why Lord Ronaldshay (who is the son of the Marquis of Zetland, aged thirty, and with no previous con- nexion with Bath) should have been chosen. But the impli- cation that the Central Office has " fixed up Bath " is, on the face of it, pretty strong.

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