In the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Postmaster- General,
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, had to defend himself against the charge, brought by Mr. Pringle, of being responsible for a vulgar and stupid puff of the Postmaster-General himself which had been issued by a publicity official of the Post Office. Mr. Pringle made play with the various statements in the puff, to which he applied a kind of higher textual criticism that greatly entertained the House. He asked why it was that puffs had not appeared when Sir William Joynson-Hicks or Mr. Neville Chamberlain was Postmaster-General. For an analogy of what had just happened they had to go back to the time of Mr. Kellaway, who had also to disavow a personal puff. Sir Laming's puff was " a clumsy exercise in the art of selective autobiography." * * * *
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