A crowded House of Commons gave fascinated attention, last week, to plump, ruddy-cheeked Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, shrewdly audacious Chancellor of Great Britain's Exchequer.
Ostensibly his pungent speech of three hours' duration served merely to "open" (present) the Empire Budget for 1928. Actually he was trumpeting abroad a new political program, on the basis of which his party (Conservative) plans to appeal to the electorate in 1929.
So fervent was Mr. Churchill's mood that, when Laborites attempted to heckle him, he fairly roared: "What! you mock us, do you? Then we will advance upon you with invincible power!" Paying but small...
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