2 FEBRUARY 1951, Page 5

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The Evening Standard is to be congratulated on securing a photo- graph of a Danish lady in tears seeing her fiancd off to Korea. This is a notable achievement, for tears are a rare capture. Kisses are ten a penny to the photographer nowadays, and the picture of Mr. Morrison engaged in osculation with some lady who is going to be or do something at the Festival of Britain stirs no emotions except a vague speculation as to whether one would prefer in such circumstances to be Mr. Morrison or the lady. But tears are another story. They should, properly speaking, be a wife's tears over her dead husband ; but perhaps the Evening Standard will get that some day and raise the level of British journalism to new heights.