10 AUGUST 1956, Page 7

IF SIR ANTHONY EDEN decided to broadcast to the nation

on Suez, the Manchester Guardian's London Correspondent noted a few days ago, it might not be easy to arrange a special television appearance in a hurry : 'there will be the question of agreeing on a time to suit both parties (not to mention Sir Anthony himself).' The final choice of 10 p.m. on Wednesday evening was not, I like to think, dictated by either of these three parties, but in deference to the wishes of the Home Service. Nothing more appropriate could have been contem- plated than its announcement that owing to the Prime Minister's talk, the programme originally announced, a dis- cussion on 'The Policy of Appeasement,' would have to be delayed—if only for fifteen minutes.