10 MAY 1913, Page 14

THE MARCONI CASE.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs must indeed pray to be delivered from their friends, as we have Mr. Handel Booth (backed up by the Radical press) informing all whom it may concern (whenever an inconvenient puss emerges from the bag) that it was never intended* that the Marconi Com- mittee should inquire into Sir Rufus Isaacs' and Mr. Lloyd George's dealings on the Stock Exchange, thus effectually demolishing the only and very flimsy excuse adduced by these gentlemen for not telling " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth " in the House of Commons last