In No. 11, next door to the residence of the Prime Minister in No. 10 Downing St., lives (so every upper class Englishman has been brought up to believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequerbut this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to...
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