12 MARCH 1932, Page 17

Now I write after hearing private talk between those who

helped to frame the Bill and those who are opposing it. Both sides take as an accepted fact the need of a successor to the landowner. Both sides desire a wide, comprehensive Bill that shall enforce preservation, if it may be " in per- petuitY." Both see salvation in the regional plan, and acknowledge generally that the bigger the region, the better. They come to loggerheads chiefly over one detail : the extent

• of the power given to small councils which may have neither the aesthetic sense nor the will to preserve: which may even murder.