Enterprise is sometimes ill rewarded. Mr. George Archibald, connected with
films professionally and with the Labour Party politically, was made a peer in the Birthday Honours List in June, 1949. Whitaker's Almanack for 1950. then in process of going to press, just managed to record the fact of the elevation. but inadvertently added the entry " Heir—None." There is, however, an heir, so he and Lord Archibald jointly brought a libel action against Whitaker. It was mentioned before Mr. Justice Slade on Monday, when, the year-book havin* apologised with due abjectitude and inserted correction-slips in as many copies of its 1950 edition as it could, the record was withdrawn by consent. But I see another libel action in the making. Mr. Elwyn Jones. the plaintiffs' counsel, is referred to in the Man- chester Guardia,: report first as Elwin and later as Edwin. Is the Recorder of Merthyr Tydvil, born and bred at Llanelly, educated at Aberystwyth, to be Anglicised like this with impunity. ? Leeks and harps, no. * * * * -
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