Foreign News: Fyfe Out

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COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

H. Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage."

Four years ago the leaders of the British Labor Party called upon Mr. Fyfe, asked him to do what he could with the then puny Laborite Daily Herald. His success in making that paper the outstanding Labor organ and one of the largest newspapers of Britain has been too often touted to need recapitulation.

His job done, H. Hamilton Fyfe, 57, the man who has written everything from dramatic criticism for the London Times (1901) to Russian propaganda in Spain (1917) and British propaganda in Germany (1918) is off again. To newsgatherers he said last week: "I believe that in 20 years there will be only two parties in England, one consisting of Laborites and Liberals and the other of Communists."