19 JUNE 1920, Page 2

The Morning Past, though we do not always agree with

it, has done great services to the nation. By maintaining an absolute independence of all parties and all politicians, by its conspicuously honest endeavours to sell us true and authentic news and net faked news or camouflaged news, by the protests which it has always made against anything in the nature of corruption, or of the open door which leads to corruption, and by its stand against the sale of honours it has maintained the beet traditions of English Journalism. The Morning Post has, however, never conferred a greater benefit on the nation than by its plain-spoken

opposition to the appointment of Sir Herbert Samuel to be the chief administrator and virtually autocrat of Palestine. With these preterits we desire to associate ourselves in the fullest way.