25/37 Paul Fiske wrote the same thing only a few weeks ago. He thought that it was the social atmosphere which we still preserve around our politics. We no sooner catch a clever man, born of the people, than we dress him up like a mummy and put him down at dinner parties and garden parties, to do things he's not accustomed to, and expect him to hold his own amongst people who are not his people. There is something poisonous about it." "Aren't you all rather assuming," Stenson suggested drily, "that the Labour Party is the only party in politics worth considering ?" "If they knew their own strength," Catherine declared, "they would be the predominant party. Should you like to go to the polls to-day and fight for your seats against them ?" "Heaven forbid!" Mr.Stenson exclaimed. |