22 MARCH 1940, Page 3

The Conservatives listened uneasily to Mr. Richard Law. When the

son of a great Tory Prime Minister reveals clearly his distrust of his father's successor, it is, to say the least of it, highly disconcerting. But worse was to follow. Mr. Harold Macmillan, armed with first-hand information from Finland, delivered what was possibly the most damaging exposure heard in the House in open debate since the war began. When he showed that, out of the hundred aeroplanes of which Mr. Chamberlain had spoken as having been sent to Finland, only four had been dispatched during the month of December, the House was obviously angry. His other statistics were equally startling.