Foreign News: Wild Irish

“Book Flung across House of Commons!”, “Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!” Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial “Winnie” Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him—a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles.

The Baldwin Government last week appointed Mr. McNeill (now a well known economist and a retired editor of the St. James Gazette) to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Since Winston Churchill is Chancellor of the Exchequer, it becomes the duty of “Wild Irish McNeill” to slip quietly in and out of the Churchillian sanctum bearing facts and figures.