The New York herald., 1922-11-17
BRITISH NOTABLES
GO DOWN TO DEFEAT
Elections Furnish Chief Sur.
prise in Unseating of Win
stOn Churchill.

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copvri0ht, 1929, by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald bureau.
London, Nov. is.
British voters apparently refused to
( be Influenced by tradition when they cast
their ballots yesterday with the result
I that many apparently firmly established
! political figures were cast into the dis
/ card. Perhaps the most surprising de-
velopment was the defeat of Winston
Churchill. former Colonial Secretary in
Dundee. a constituency which he has
held for many years. Not only was he
defeated by the only prohibition candi-
date who sought election. z. Scrym-
gour, but he ran fourth in the count
Mr. Churchill has been a prominent
figure in British politics for about twenty
years and made an able record as
Minister of Munitions and Secretary OF
State for war. He was defeated by the
foreign policy of the Lloyd George Cab
met, for which he was held largely re-
sponsible. That his popularity had
waned was clearly shown on November
IS, when he was bowled into silence
in Dundee when he attempted to make
a speech from a wheel chair, having
arisen from a sick bed.
Churchill has made mistakes, but lie
also has had the misfortune 10 be made
the scapegoat for the mistakes OF
others. He was blamed as the man
who suggested the ill-fated Gallipoli ex..
pedition and also very largely for tho
Lloyd George policy leading up to the
Mud9 MIA crisis in the Near East. all
OF which combined brought about frls
heavy defeat.
Capt. the Hon. Frederick Guest w-as
was defeated by Sir Hall Gaines son.
Ralph. in East Devonshire, is one OF
two brothers of viscount Winborne
who married New York women. Capt.
Guest who was elected to ParliaLi.nt
from East Dorsetshire in 1917. and has
been, the Coalition Liberal whip,
married in 1906 Niss Amy enipps.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry PhippS
and sister OF Henry Carnegie Phipps.
His younger brother. the Hon. LiongT
Guest. who now Is in New York.
married in 1905 Mrs. Flora Bigelow
Dodge. daughter of the late John Bige-
low and former wife OF Charles Stuart
Dodge OF Now York. The Guest brothers
are relatives of the Duke OF Marl-
borough.
Hardly less surprising than rnc de
feat of Churchill was the defeat OF
Arthur Henderson. thesf.ab leader IN
the face of heavy Labor gains, OF him
II had been predicted that II ever Grea;
Britain had Labor Premier he would
be the man.
Labor in turn, defeated Sir Donald
MacIean. Asquith's principal leader, IN
PEBBLES, where the Labor candidate, J.
Westwood, got 6.394 votes. the Con-
servatlve. 5,992. and MacLean, 5,S77.
The defeat OF Edwin 8. Montagu, for
mer Secretary of State for India in the
Lloyd George Cabinet. was not so much
of surprise following the difficulties
he encountered last march by authoriz-
ing the publication OF dispatches from
the Government OF India. calling for the
revision OF the treaty OF Sevres--an act
which caused Lloyd George to demand
his resignation and caused him to be re-
buked also by Lord Curzon and Parlla-
ment. Gilbert Murray. Oxford's profess
sor Of Greek. was defeated as a Liberal
In the university vote.
Another figure long prominent IN
British politics who went down 20 de-
feat yesterday is that Of Sir Hamar
Greenwood former Chief Secretary for
Ireland. who was beaten by the Con-
servativos in Sunderland. sir Hamar
used a strong hand in ireland, and In
some of his public utterances proved
himself more Of a soldier than diplo-
mat, which did not serve TO Increase his
popularity.