One for Chamberlain

While Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of playing ball with Mussolini was receiving distrustful glances from France last week, it received its first nod of approval from the voters at home. In a parliamentary bye-election at Aylesbury, Bucks., fought largely over Conservative Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Conservative candidate, Sir Stanley Reed, won a comfortable victory over his Liberal and Laborite opponents. Sir Stanley polled 21,695 votes, the Liberal candidate 10,751 and the Laborite 7,666.

The score on bye-elections held since the resignation of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden two months ago now stands: two for the Opposition, one for the Government. The Opposition victories were hung up in West Fulham, outside London, and in Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party has long had the Aylesbury constituency under control.

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