4 APRIL 1941, Page 5

Nothing could be better than the decision regarding the Board

of the B.B.C. announced by Mr. Duff Cooper in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The increase of the number of Governors from two to six, and the personalities of the four new Governors, are equally satisfactory. Dr. J. J. Mallon and Sir Ian Fraser, both Governors till the purge at the beginning of the war, return, and with them come Lady Violet Bonham-Carter and Mr. A. H. Mann, the late editor of the Yorkshire Post. The Board is now a representative and liberal-minded body, and Mr. Duff Cooper guarantees that it shall enjoy complete freedom of action. Those of us who have long urged the restoration of a Board with full powers have their reward and are duly thankful.

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