3 MARCH 1950, Page 4

Compilation of the Dissolution Honours List could not have taken

the Prime Minister long. With half of it, at any rate, there will be general satisfaction—that is provided that it gives Jack Lawson (the Rt. Hon. J. J. Lawson, formerly Secretary of State for War) any pleasure to find himself in the once gilded.Chamber. From one point of view no doubt it will, for on his appointment he had to resign the seat he had filled in the House of Commons for thirty years, and he would find it hard to have to visit the Palace of Westminster only as a stranger. The pit-boy has travelled a long way, and the journey does him nothing but honour. His book, A Man's Life, in which he tells some part of the story, is very well worth reading.