Foreign News: In Smethwick

Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter and heiress of the late famed Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, continued her stump speaking at Smethwick near Birmingham (TIME, Dec. 20) in behalf of her husband, Oswald Mosely, who is seeking election to the Commons as a Laborite. Since both Oswald Mosely and his wife Lady Cynthia are regarded as dilettante Laborites, the jeers of the press were loud last week when Mr. Mosely's father, Sir Oswald Mosely, a peppery Conservative, attacked his son's candidacy as follows:

"I never could understand the line Oswald has taken. He was born with...

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