The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
Spectacular Exit of Impetu- ous Statesman Is Subject
 of Comment
BORE BRUNT OF WAR
 MINISTRIES FAILURES
Stolid English Public Unimpressed by His asm-Unfulfillment of Optimistic Predictions Is Played
 Upon by the Press With !Essol

London, November, otNV sss' ..e in
 British life has be- .e target of
 more criticism since the war started than Winston Spencer Chruchill, who
 has just resigned as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the cabinet and is about to join the army in France. Mir. Churchill assumed the least inn
 portant position in the cabinet when the
 coalition ministry was formed last May after having held the important post of first lord of the admirarlty.
 Mir Churchill will be 41 years old No vember 30, but according to his critics, he does not acquire discretion with years.
 Rightly or wrongly, Churchill has been blamed as if solely responsible for the inadequacy of the British relief of
 Antwerp, which ended with the intern ment of a large part of the British ma rine expedition in Hollard. Similarly he has had the brunt of the public cen sure for the attempt to force the Dar-
 Ganelles without the help of the army. which has produced a British casualty Hist of 100000 men, He is termed "the
 duke of Antwerp and Gallipoli."
 Extravagant Predictions
 Possibly he would not be forced to bear the full brunt of this disapproval | if he were not addicted to a rather boastful method of public address. His prophecy that If the German ships did not come out and fight we would dlg them out of their holes like rats;" his prediction that if zeppelins came to
 England they would be surrounded by
 "a swarm of hornets and his claim at
 Dundee after his clash with Admiral
 Fisher that the British on the Gallipoli peninsula were within few miles" of a great victory are typical instances. A comic weekly, poking fun at Mr Churchill's recently adopted avocation of painting, pictures him with easel and palette before canvases depicting rats 1 in holes and swarming of hornets and entities its cartoon "A Promising Paint CT. Somewhat Lacking in Execution. 1 On Trafalgar day he wrote Through our long delays the enemy hns seized { 8 new initiative in hesnear east.r One day when he was in the House of Com- mons he was asked, How the delays had arisen and who had been responsi- ble for them" He had been chatting with David Lloyd George on the treas ury' bench, but when the question was put he had disappeared. Cheers greeted the question and members called out, The was here; he is in the house." and
 MT. Hogge, prominent Batter. asked, "Why has he run away?'
 To Speak in House of Commons Several days later he expressed re- gret that he was not present, saying he meant that the delay was incidental to the joint action in military and diplo- matic affairs of the various allied gov ernments, among whom the responsibil- jity was shared. 4 MT. Churchill intends to explain the reason for his resignation at the sitting of the House of Commons Monday. According to the Times parliamentary correspondent, MT. Churchill will re- view the war operations of the ad- miralty during his term as first lord and will justify the expeditions to Ant werp and the Dardanelles.
 l The Times takes the view that all though MT. Churchilps action recalls the equally dramatic resignation of his father it is not likely to close his politi- cal career as it did in his fathers case. MT. Churchills great gifts and vivid imagination" the newspaper says, have been amply demonstrated in his dec ade in office and there are few who would venture to. predict his permanent withdrawal from public life"