3 AUGUST 1934, Page 6

Sir John Fischer Williams is one of those public- spirited

citizens always ready to serve the community for no tangible reward. No sooner does his work as Chairman of a Departmental Committee on Imprisonment for Default end than he is chosen as chairman of the new Royal Commission on Tithe. It is an excellent appointment. Sir John has long and varied legal experience behind him, and his experience as legal adviser to the Reparation Commission in Paris gave him wide international connexions. As Sir Arthur Salter once observed, he would make an admirable Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, for he possesses an essentially judicial mind.

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