24 AUGUST 1945, Page 12

POST OBITER DICTUM ?

Sta,—Those of us who do not happen to remember it are much indebted to Mr. Arnold Hyde for acquainting them with Dr. Benjamin Jowett's characteristically pithy comment fourteen years after his own decease, on Campbell Bannerman's proceedings at the Hague Peace Conference of 19o7. Are we not entitled to hope, and believe, that the late Master of Balliol was on this occasion talking down to the level of his mundane