17 JULY 1941, Page 4

It seemed a little shabby on the part of some

London morn- ing papers to refrain deliberately from mentioning the Sunday Express in connexion with the really remarkable lunch which that paper gave last week in honour of Raymond Gram Swing ; if journalistic practice dictates this, journalistic practice reflects a regrettable small-mindedness. I call the lunch remarkable because of the catholicity and distinction of the large audience. which included no fewer than eighteen Ministers of the Crown. It must have involved the Sunday Express in considerable labour and very considerable expense, and members of the staffs of papers which next morning referred frigidly to Mr. Swing's speech " at a luncheon in London," seemed quite able to enjoy the hospitality proffered.

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