25 APRIL 1952, Page 5

Incidentally, one of the most astonishing misjudgements I have seen

for a long time appears in the Daily Express in the reference to " petty little men like the pitiful and pompous Dawson." Nothing but sheer ignorance could dictate that. You might agree or disagree with Geoffrey Dawson. You might criticise him on this ground or that. But that anyone who ever knew him personally should apply a single one of these particular adjectives to him would be grotesque.

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