Some indignation also has mingled with this merriment. Much as
the House appreciated the promotion of Mr. R. S. Hudson, they would have appreciated it even more if his energy and strong will had been applied to some department other than that over which Sir Arthur Salter is so fitted to preside. Much sympathy, moreover, was felt for Mr. W. S. Morrison, whose recent ill-fortune has not led the House to forget the brilliant shrewdness of his gifts. Nor was it felt that it was either tactful or kind to send Lord De La Wzrr to Paris in the capacity of Minister of Education and to oblige him to appear at the Sorbonne in the most irrelevant guise of First Commissioner of Works. Lord De La Warr has been faced with an acute problem owing to the drift back to London of the evacuated children, and he and Mr. Kenneth Lindsay have dealt with that problem with imagination and strength. It seemed unfair that, only three days after the educational machinery had again been set into some sort of working order, he should have been removed from his post. * * * *
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