AT THE CONFERENCE
A working iroman, Mtb. Clara Fyfe, of Newcastle, is to preside over the Conservative Party Conf erence, stated a Manchester paper last month. Mrs Fyfe has no help in the house and xnakes her own pastry, and her husband, a warehonseman, is not interested in politics. It was Lord Baldwin who set Mrs. Fyfe's feet on the way to political fanie. Nine years ago h« chose her for the party eaceoutive, and since then she has undertalcen a great amount of work of one kind and another for the party (withont neglecting the pastry), and Lord Baldwin has felt more than justifled of his choice, So hejshould, Mrs. Fyfe made a speech at one of tho critical conferences on India. She told the Page-urofters, with all the direotness of a wonjtan, and a Northnmbriaa woman, that their sort of Toryism could lose the North of England for the party in a night, Not a few people at the time considered that her speech. turned a soeptical conference in favour of the India poliey; It was the kind of epee^fe hnown to the more exnberant politioian as a hreath of fresh air, /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 4
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