This has happily not been true of Colonel Muirhead, who
has stepped from a Parliamentary Private Secretary- ship to the Parliamentary Secretaryship at the Ministry of Labour, probably the most important of the Under- Seeretaryships. It will be a popular appointment. Muir= head has the strength of character and the shrewd common sense combined with a conciliatory manner, qualities most needed when feeling runs high as it usually does when the affairs of the Ministry of Labour are being discussed. Many regard him as a future leader of the Tory Party. The promotion of Mr. Kenneth Lindsay from among the National Labour back benchers to the Civil Lordship of the Admiralty is also well deserved. The first Labour President of the Oxford Union, he has given evidence during his very short period in Parliament of a constructive social outlook and the ability to express it with vigour and courage. * *
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