The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-12
'BALDWIN'S ICY
HEIR APPARENT
NOW WARNS UP
IN LOOKING AROUND FOR
SUCCESSOR To AGING PRE-
MIER. NO CHANCE TAKEN
ON YOUTH
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE
CAP Foreign SpeciaIist)

Great Britain, casting a9out
for a successor to aging Premier
Stanley Baldwin, is taking no
chances on youth.
Slated to become premier, Ne
vile Chamberlain, the intellectual
machine xko has starred as chan
eellor OF the exchequer, is an ED
Ierly statesman of the conservative
school not too conservative to
take a really legitimate gamble,
but disinelined to undertake rad
zeal, untried experiments blindly.
He is known as "safe and sane. .
Like EN- Old
England never has subscribed
to the slogan of "Too Old at 40,'
and the retiring premier (some-
times known as Farmer" Bald
VIM is in his 10th year of portli.
ness, while Chamberlain is 68.
There was a time not so long
ago when youth was cIamornig,
with some prospect OF reward, fol-
new blood in the political leader
ship and even was saying unkind
things about Mr.. BaIdwin's al
legged Tory re&ctionism. However
since it now becomes necessary to
change horses in the middle of a
turbulent stream, the fresh mount
viii be a veteran war-horse who
has baen tried under fire.
Has Ccuntry's Confidence
One great asset Chamberla n
will take with him into famous
old NO. 10 Downing Street
residence of many generations OF
prime ministers Is the confidence
of his Psop,e. Indeed, he, more
than any other man, is held by
Britons to have pulled the coun-
try through the great depression
and make her admired by the en-
tire world.
1t probably is equally true that
the people follow Chamberlain
more for his intellect than because
of any warmth Of personality. Hs
is by way OF being genius, but he
is also by way of being something
OF brainy machine, inspiring awe
rather than affection. He lacks
that hypnotic appeal of a Lloyd
George whom you follow through
thick and thin even though you
believe he probably is dead wrong.
just Family Shell
However, most of this is mere
" the Chamberlain family she'll
Nevll.e's famous statesman broth
er, Sir Austen, who died recently
was a chip off the same block
The hemonoeled Sir Austen was
about the most austere being ever
to sit in the House of Commons.
Beneath chat veneer, though, he
was warm hearted and friendly
as / know from long personal ac-
quaintance. If you want proof that
he is one OF the crowd at heart
all you need to know is that his
hobby is salmon fishing. A mar
who likes fishing is labeled a:
regular" in most any language.
Calls For Master Brain
At this moment Europe is sale
! by statesmen, like our own Secre
tary of State Hull, to be tending
towards war or bankruptcy OIL
both. England has just embarked
on the greatest ornaments drive
the world has ever known, and the
tax is going up to 25 percent OF
little incomes-eut of sight OF
large ones. The British empire il
still suffering from the shock o.
King Edwards abdication and try
ing to estimate the damage which
may have been done by one whC
loved well but perhaps not wisely
Chamberlain is credited witt
possessing the qualities necessary
to guide an already sorely trfeC
people over more rough ground.