19 APRIL 1957, Page 8

IN AN ARTICLE on political weeklies in the Evening Standard

last week Mr. Robert J. Edwards stated that 'it was Tribune's power in the Socialist Party that prevented Mr. Bevan's expulsion two years ago.' Presumably modesty prevented Mr. Ed- wards, who now writes articles for Lord Beaver- brook on such subjects as Teddy boys and subur- ban travel, froth disclosing to his readers that the editor of Tribune two years ago was none other than—Mr. Robert J. Edwards. PHAROS