When Great Britain went to war her political parties made peace. They agreed that for the duration vacated parliamentary seats would not be contested, Conservatives being succeeded by Conservatives, Laborites by Laborites. The political truce was designed to put an end to party politics in wartime. Last week it put a Churchill in Parliament: Randolph, 29-year-old son of Winston.
Flamboyant, cheeky Son Churchill, an ex-Hearst newsman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, had tried three times previously to become an M. P., but the Baldwin-Chamberlain clique, seeing him merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each...
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