VIGOROUS PREMIER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 7

VIGOROUS PREMIER.

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S TASK. I LONDON, March 30. I The Prime Minister, Mr Ch'amberI lain, celebrated his 71st birthday by S' doing nothing different from what lie I would have done on any ordinary day; | that is to say, he look his morning S' walk in St. James’ Park and afterward | s got down “to the business of State,” \ 1 us it was put. Mr Chamberlain’s good health and fight step at 71 are a daily marvel to people who watch him closely at Westminister, Ho has suffered “the siege of battering days” with a vengeance since he succeeded Lord Baldwin, hut anyone would be hard put to it—indeed, ono will go so far as to say it would be impossible—to point to'tho slightest physical change in Mr Chamberlain’s appearance since 193/. A few days alter be became Primp Minister lie went in his precise businesslike wav to be “vetted’ by his doctor—“vetted” was the word he himself used to a group of journalists at. the time—arid the doctor pronounced him in first-rate trim. “He even allows mo a glass of port after dinner,” added the occasional victim of gout, with that wan smile of his. Certainly he has been in first-rate trim ever since, and lie said only a few tinys ago that lie was now in better fettle than when war began.