31 DECEMBER 1937, Page 4

" I deplore and detest things like marketing boards and

other Socialist contrivances." So Lord Runciman in the Sunday Times. But since when ? Lord Runciman was a member of the Cabinet from 1931 to 1937, and the Agricul- tural Marketing Bill of 1933, under which a number of marketing boards have been set up, was framed by that Cabinet and by it commended to the two Houses of Parlia- ment, which duly passed it into law. Did Lord Runciman deplore and detest the whole thing the whole time ? If so he suppressed his emotions with some success.

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