17 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 6

All that need be said of Sir Arthur Salter's appointment

to the Parliamentaryship of the Ministry of Shipping is that it is a case of the right man being half-way towards the right place. By accident or design the appointment was announced just in time—by a few hours—to preclude the man who knows more than anyone else about the handling of shipping in the last war from joining in the debate on the Ministry in the House on Tuesday. *. *