"Bogeyman"

Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane]."

At these lordly libels Mr. Duff Cooper did not trouble to bring suit. Socialist Ponsonby, being a peer, could not carry his attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell.

Clipped back Duff Cooper: "Should not Labor decide whether it intends to support or retard recruitment for the British Army?"

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