31 OCTOBER 1952, Page 5

In expressing slight surprise at some remarks attributed to Mr.

John Braithwaite by the New York papers I prudently inserted the qualification " assuming the remarks attributed to him were authentic." Apparently they were not. What Mr. Braithwaite explains that he said is that most of us in Britain like Ike because we know him so well, and for what he has done for us in Europe—quite outside politics." That is obviously unexceptionable, but no doubt even a statement by an Englishman that he had never seen Ike with a dirty face would be turned into a campaign-point by the Republican Press.