Foreign News: Churchill vs. Publishers

The decision of Messrs. Nash and Grayson, publishers of Captain Peter Wright's Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3), to change "to pursue and possess every sort of woman" into "to pursue every sort of woman" not only pleased Lord Gladstone, whose father, the late Premier William Ewart

Gladstone, is the subject of the above discourse, but created a precedent of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill was not slow to take advantage.

Mr. Churchill called upon the same publishers to withdraw from circulation the anonymous volume entitled Uncensored Recollections.* He made...

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