This impudent attempt to draw a red herring across the
path—it can only be described in such terms—for a day or so filled the apologists of the Ministers involved with delight. Unfortunately for them, however, the evidence given on Monday absolutely smashed and pulverized the whole of the fabricraised by Mr. Godfrey Isaacs' veiled suggestions and innuendoes. The two members of Parliament who were suggested as being engaged in a conspiracy to defeat the Marconi contract in order to help the Poulsen Company turned out to be Major Archer Sbee and Mr. Norton Griffiths. Both these gentlemen were able to show conclusively that they had no sort bf interest in the Poulsen Company, had never even communicated with each other on the matter, and, in fact, that the whole story was a malicious mare's nest which will do very little credit to those who discovered it as an explanation of the rumours about the Marconi Company and the Ministers involved. Sir Henry Norman was, of course, also able to show that be had no interest whatever in the Poulsen Com- pany, and it came out incidentally that, like a sensible man, he was most careful not even to appear to lay himself under the slightest obligation to the Poulsen Company, even in so small a matter as the use of a Poulsen apparatus with which he wanted to conduct some purely private wireless experiments.
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