21 DECEMBER 1945, Page 4

The sooner the recommendation of the Cohen Committee on Company

Law, that the Board of Trade should be given unfettered power to disallow misleading company titles, is given legal force the better. In the House of Commons on Monday Sir Stafford Cripps; asked about a concern calling itself the British Universities Press Limited, which has no sort of connection with any university and is obviously 'exploiting the name for purely commercial purposes, had to admit that his present powers were inadequate for dealing with such a case as this. It is fully time they were made adequate. The Government has given its general blessing to the Cohen Report, and a Bill implementing it could count on general support. * * * *