Mr. Glenvit Hall was returning good for evil when he
rescued the Prime Minister from hostile questions on Monday by giving notice that he would raise the question of the appointment of an Atlantic Admiral on the adjournment, a proceeding which auto- matically rules out further interrogation. It is long since a personal matter has aroused more indignation than the Prime Minister's decision at the beginning of this Parliament not to offer Mr. Glenvil Hall, who had been Financial Secretary of the Treasury from 1945, any office at all. Labour members expressed themselves by at once electing Mr. 1Plall Chairman of the Parlia- mentary Labour Party—an office which, of course, unlike the Secretaryship of the Treasury, carries no salary. Now Mr. Glenvil Hall finds his Parliamentary seat, Colne Valley, in some danger, for it seems likely that Lady Violet Bonham Carter will be chosen as candidate for that division with both Liberal and Conservative support ; the combined vote at the last election Was some five hundred more than the Labour vote.
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