4 APRIL 1952, Page 7

A week or two ago I raised the question whether

the B.B.C. News Department was acting on some hitherto undisclosed principle in refusing to call Dr. Adenauer anything but Herr Adenauer. I am glad to find it is so, for I am a strong believer in principle. It appears that only Doctors of Medicine and Doctors of Divinity are permitted the disputed appellation. Dr. Malan is, in fact, a D.D., and I must assume that Dr. Moussadek is too (which is very gratifying) for I have no reason to think he is a Doctor of Medicine. It is clear, therefore, that it was Hr. Nansen who went north in the " Fram," and Mr. Johnson of whom a Mr. Boswell wrote a short biography. All right, let the B.B.C. News Department keep its Herr on.

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