11 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 6

'I Do NOT REJOICE at Mr. Morgan Phillips's recovery,' Professor

G. D. H. Cole has informed the Oxford University Labour Party. 'In fact, 1 wish he were dead.' Subsequently Professor Cole has explained that politically he meant every word he said. Politically (following a surfeit of Left Book Club publications) the Professor's own demise took place in the late Thirties.