On Monday The Times and every other paper I saw
quoted Dr. Adenauer's views on the recent Soviet Note on a treaty with Germany. On the same day the B.B.C. News Bulletin spoke, according to its invariable habit, of Herr Adenauer's views on the subject. As I believe I have suggested once before, this persistent refusal to recognise the German Chan- cellor's doctorate is a persistent insult, whether so intended or not. If the B.B.C. is following some undisclosed principle the principle ought to be explained, for this is a matter not of domestic but of public importance. I do not recall that the B.B.C. was in the habit of speaking of the late leader of the Opposition in the Lords as Mr. Addison, or that it speaks of the late Master of Trinity as Mr. Trevelyan. Would it pain Sir William Haley intolerably to put this right ? JANUS
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