When Hugh Dalton, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, blurted himself out of the cabinet and into the penitential back benches of the Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 24), no one expected he would have to stay there for long. Early last week the dunce cap was off and he was back again, this time as Chancellor of The Duchy of Lancaster.* He had talked himself back just as effectively as he had talked himself out—or, as London's doggerel-of-the-week put it:
The Chatty Chancellor, as such, We were really bound to sack, But as he still...
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