A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK I T is a good deal of a
compliment to Lord Snowden's reputation as a broadcaster that Mr. Churchill should have thought it necessary to attack him violently before the broadcast had. ever been delivered, at all. As for the complaints that the Liberals •should never have allotted one of their three evenings to Lord Snowden, there seems to me more in that, now that the speech has been de- livered, than there was when the arrangement was made. The purpose of the broadcasts, I take it, is to allow each party to expound its own point of view, and I see no reason why the Liberals should not have given one of their evenings to, say, Mr. George Robes, if they thought he would expound Liberal principles effectively. As it turned out Lord Snowden never mentioned the Liberal programme. His speech was a sustained onslaught on the National Government, and in view of the paucity Of Liberal candidates his advice to the electors to vote Liberal, and failing that Labour, was likely to be at least as valuable to Mr. Attlee as to Sir Herbert Samuelas theDailyllerald recognised with some jubilation. Assuming that there-arc not more than 150 Liberal candidates, there will be at least 250 seats where Labour has a straight fight against a National Governthent candidate. On that showing Lord Snowden in his Liberal talk was, in effect, backing 100 more Labour men than Liberals:
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