19 OCTOBER 1956, Page 7

MR. BUTLER'S REMARKS about Sir Anthony Eden are really fabulous.

Earlier this year he called Sir Anthony 'the best Prime Minister we have,' which was hardly an extravagant encomium. On Saturday he said that Sir Anthony had repre- sented the qualities of 'courage, integrity and flair' this summer more clearly than any Prime Minister he had ever served under. When one recalls that Mr. Butler served for many years under Sir Winston Churchill, it seems almost as if he is feeling his way towards a technique of damning with over-praise. What. I wonder, will he say about the next Conservative Prime