Sir john Simon, now that he is away from the
Foreign 'Office, may well achieve a real position of dominance in the House of Commons. He followed up his success in the vote of censure debate last Week With a fascinating survey on Tuesday of the work of the Home Office which deeply impressed the remnant of the House who had resisted the attractions of the Naval Review. It was surely a mistake, however, to make no mention in his speech of the Air Raid circular sent out to local authorities asking them to prepare the population for an attack from the air. It was the one action of the Home Office 'upon which there was a real concentration of fire from the Labour benches. The ferocity of their attack was very difficult to understand. To make some prepara- tion against the horrors of aerial warfare on the civil population is a precaution that any Government, what- ever its complexion, must take.
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