Sir Wavell Wakefield's proposal that an "annunciator," indicat- ing what
Member is on his feet down below at any moment, should be affixed to Big Ben did not commend itself to the Minister of Works. Nor, I am afraid, does it to me ; the news that certain gentlemen were in action would spread alarm and despondency over too wide an area. But if I thus respectfully differed from Sir Wavell on Monday I listened with the profoundest attention and respect on Tuesday to his appreciation of the University Rugby Match at which, as a former Cambridge and England captain, he was rightly present, and from which I, as martyr to a stern sense of duty, was rightly absent. The result of the match leaves me slightly depressed, but it will hardly have had that effect on a certain lady in South Africa who enjoys what, I suppose, is the unique distinc- tion of having one son who was captain of Cambridge (before the war) and another who is this year captain of Oxford.
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