22 MARCH 1963, Page 8

Ex Cathedra

An agreeable story of the present mood of pro-Wilson propaganda in the Labour Party has just reached me. I believe that Mr. Richard Crossman, MP, has been entertaining a number of his colleagues to tell them what a brave, able, approachable, far-sighted, good man Mr. Wilson in fact is, and how maligned he was by Mr. Gaitskell. As he warms to the task, the eloquent Mr. Crossman has been known to point to a vacant armchair in his sitting-room. 'There,' says he dramatically, 'is his chair!'