Sir Philip Sassoon was hunted on both days, because the
Vienna Legation has been sold to the Nazi Flying Corps for what, to the House, seemed a bargain price. The First Commissioner of Works, from the days when he was at the Air Ministry, has found Supplementary Estimates trouble- some. His story of what amounts to a forced sale at the purchaser's price was bound to arouse a House peculiarly sensitive to German methods. But he added unnecessarily to his difficulties by giving the House. the information it wanted only when it was dragged unwillingly from him. Sir Samuel Hoare advanced his reputation as a prison re- former a further step. Mr. Butler at ',east had the satis- faction of addressing a fairly full House on Tuesday for his diplomatic estimates ; there was almost a foreign affairs debate, with Mr. Grenfell, Mr. Mander and Miss Ftathbone giving their winter speeches a spring airing.
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