Who's Who, indispensable as ever, is still expanding slightly, like
so many on whom the present predominantly farinaceous diet has the same effect. It still begins with Aaron, Richard Thomas (for I decline to countenance A.A. ; see Willis, A. A.) and still ends with Zwemer, Samuel Marinus (who belongs more properly to Who's! Who in America). Zilliacus, Konni, who catches my eye as I flipi the pages, is as reticent as ever about his antecedents and associations, admitting nothing except that he has been "M.P. (Lab.) Gaieshead since 1945. Member Secretariat League of Nations for 18 years."' (One even of these few words, "Lab," must now disappear.) In a way I should like to see Who's Who getting smaller and more select (and in consequence costing a little less than 85s.), but the process of reduction would obviously be painfully invidious. As it is, if we like praising famous men, here are, at a rough guess, some twenty-five thousand or so who, having been passed in by the guardian of the door, incontestably deserve our eulogies. That figure allows a margin. for the refusal of obeisance to some who manifestly don't.
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