14 MAY 1942, Page 4

There will be general sympathy with Lord Beaverbrook in destruction

of his Leatherhead house by fire. It is stated, I see, " the Bonar Law- papers bequeathed by Bonar Law to Lord Bca brook are safe." There is, it may be assumed, unpublished matt some interest here. Of the biographies of Prime Ministers and o leading political figures of the last two or three decades one is spicuously missing. That is Mr. Bonar Law's. His Mr. Richard Law, was working on the book several ) ago, but he ' could not get far without access to the pa which Lord Beaverbrook holds, and that access, I believe I am in saying, was not forthcoming. How matters stand today regar that I do not know. In any case, Mr. Law, who is now U Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is no doubt too much occupied for moment to write biographies.

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