10 MAY 1946, Page 4

The neatest and aptest wit in the House of Commons

is un- questionably Mr. Oliver Stanley. The all-night sitting on Tuesday was brightened by one evidence of that. The Solicitor-General, Sir Frank Soskice, had been insisting rather to excess on the flexi- bility of the measure he was defending. That stimulated Mr. Stanley. "We have all heard, he observed, "of a great gardener who was uninvariably known as Capability Brown. I trust the right hon. gentleman will not so down in history as Flexibility Frank."