I shall indulge in no speculations about the General Election.
I have no idea what is being decided—what may have been decided by the time these words are read. I feel fairly certain that in fact nothing has been decided, for everything is in the Prime Minister's hands, and it could be taken for granted that Mr. Attlee would keep an open mind till he had talked things over with Mr. Bevin, on whose counsel he always sets great store, particularly where anything affect- ing organised labour is concerned. Meanwhile the daily papers, recognising that the date of the General Election was a matter of prime concern to all their readers, conscious equally that like all the world they were completely ignorant of what the date would be, have shown considerable ingenuity in paraphrasing on Wednesday what they had said on Tuesday, when they had paraphrased equally convincingly what they had said on Monday. Of course, there was Mr. Bevan's "in a very short time " ; another Cabinet Minister of equal status with Mr. Bevan had just told me he still thought it would be May. You can argue as you will—or wait till you know.
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