20 OCTOBER 1950, Page 3

Mr. Bevan's decision to appoint a special committee, and a

singularly strong one, to enquire unto the claim of the Welsh non-medical practitioner, Mr. Rees Evans, to have discovered a successful treatment for cancer must be counted something of a triumph for Picture Post, which conducted a lengthly, detailed and by no means inexpensive investigation of its own into Mr. Rees Evans' claims, and made in recent issues a strong case for further enquiry. That case the Minister of 'Health has now recognised. The British Medical Journal demurs. My own view is that the Minister is right.

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