As regards the Campbell case, Mr. Baldwin admitted in the
House of Commons on Thursday, December 18th, that when a proposed prosecution involved matters of public policy it was the duty of the Attorney-General to inform himself of the views of the Government. He added that it was because the instruction of the Labour Government to the Attorney-General's Department had gone beyond that principle that the present Government
had rescinded it. Mr. MacDonald then remarked in effect that the views of the present Government were essentially those of the late Government, and that in the circumstances he would not move the adjournment of the House as he had proposed to do. We take that to mean that Mr. MacDonald quietly accepts the rescission. If so he is wise, and we may hope that no more time need be wasted over the Campbell case.
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