Three members of the British Delegation to the United Nations
Assembly, Mr. T. F. Cook, Mrs. Barbara Castle and Mr. G. H. Rogers, are back at Westminster, after sitting for three weeks in an Assembly which is likely to last for three months. This is thoroughly bad news—for the reason they are back; and the only reason, is that the Opposition decline to find pairs for them, and with a standing majority of no more than five or six.the Government can clearly not afford to have three Membess away unpaired. The Opposition, no doubt, have a case. They are finding pairs for the two principal members of the delegation at Lake Success, Mr. Kenneth Younger and Sir Frank Soskice, but say they cannot immo- bilise three more of their supporters, perhaps for another couple of months, when every Conservative is thirsting for a battle which can only be carried to the issue in the division- lobby. But an accommodation plainly ought to be reached. If anything is non-party it is the United Nations, and that the national delegation at the General Assembly should be ham- strung for party reasons is neither creditable nor tolerable.
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