• * * On Monday Lord Beaverbrook delivered the annual
Roscoe' Lecture at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, and expressed his belief that the Press is more powerful than it has ever been ; that ability in public life, both for politicians and journalists, depends on egotism ; and that the modern Press can " beat politicians every time" if newspapers are conducted by men of character and ability. All this might be read as an implied accusation that the' Press at present lacks character and ability, as the Prime Minister has notoriously beaten the Press, if not every time, at all events very hand- somely in a recent encounter. Part of the Press, as Lord Beaverbrook has reason to know, tried to dispose of the Prime Minister. The result of the encounter was that the Prime Minister became more strongly entrenched than ever.
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