20 JANUARY 1939, Page 14

Am I attributing false motives to the incorruptible Eleanor Rathbone?

She has no false motives. Yet I hand to her, as a gesture of conciliation, a further quotation. " Be bolde," wrote Longfellow:

"Be bolde, be bolde and everywhere be bolde

Be not too bolde." Yet better the excess than the defect; -• Better the more than the less."