This has been a heavy week for the Home Office.
On Tuesday afternoon Lord Lloyd, who is one of the Under- Secretaries in that department, told Lord Chorley that an apology had been sent to M. Rene Cassin, vice-president of the French Conseil d'Etat, because he had been inadvertently delayed for three-quarters of an hour in passing through the immigration control at Victoria Station. Later that day , Lord Lloyd sat in the peers' gallery in the House of Commons to see how the Welsh debate was going on. (The Commons spent Wednesday on SCottish affairs.) His duty is to assist the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, in looking after Wales, and he must have been struck, as everyone else was, by the- plodding thoroughness with which Sir David wound up the debate. References to the tourist industry enabled Sir David to make his one joke. " I am a brewer in my spare time," he said. It was a safe joke. The State management districts for which the Home Secretary is responsible are in England and Scotland. The Home Office was involved again on Friday. The first private member's motion for debate on that day had been tabled by Mr. Kenneth Thompson,. the Conservative member for Walton. and concerned the over- crowding of prisons and the need to provide better accom- modation for prison staffs. J. F. B.
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