14 JUNE 1946, Page 4

Misleading headlines are a subject on which I have expressed

[icy own views more than once. But it is possible to be pernickety in such matters. The Daily Herald on Tuesday put over a report of Mr. Herbert Morrison's speech at the Labour Party Conference the heading of " Herbert Morrison tells the Conference delegates ' the Government has gone as far to the Left as is wise '." On Wed- nesday a letter appeared from Mr. Morrison protesting at the head- ing on the ground that what he had really said was, " It has gone as far to the Left as is consistent with sound reason and the national interest." The correction seems hardly wise. But quite possibly it is consistent with sound sense, which in Mr. Morrison's view is totally different.

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