Thousands of kippers cooled on thousands of breakfast tables last week while Britons stared in amazement at an advertisement in the "agony" (personals) column of the Times:
GENTLEMAN OF PLYMOUTH, conscientiously believing that the present Parliamentary representative from the Sutton Division should be opposed at the next election, would like to communicate with a gentleman who would be willing to oppose the present member as an independent Conservative candidate.
The representative from the Sutton Division is probably the best known British M.P. not of Cabinet rank: angular Lady Nancy Astor, newly returned from...
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