5 JULY 1940, Page 9

This week has seen the absorption of the last 50

per cent. of the unemployed quartet of experts whose apparent super- fluity in the Government's eyes has more than once been remarked on in this column. Sir Arthur Salter was the first to be summoned—to the Ministry of Shipping ; then Sir Walter Layton was enlisted by Mr. Morrison at the Ministry of Supply ; now Mr. Bevin has made Sir William Beveridge" Commissioner to Survey the Available Resources of Man-Power," and Mr. J. M. Keynes has been put on a committee to advise the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the imposition (or, if you like it better, the remission) of taxation. What is called tightening up, or taking in the slack.