Strange Cabinet
Maurice Macmillan has survived his swift baptism under fire remarkably well. It cannot have been easy for him, conducting admirably his first set of important and delicate negotiations, to have suddenly discovered that the generals at his back had decided to open an intensive barrage immediately over his head. This Cabinet is capable of behaving very strangely. It may well be fine for the Chancellor to address some important words to the nation on the subject of industrial relations. But to contrive a hasty platform, to telephone around Fleet Street and the broadcasting people summoning them to hear an important statement virtually within the hour: this is unusually hasty behaviour. I do not feel that a useful precedent has been established; and I hope that if anyone in the Government thinks that the Cabinet, having lost to the miners, has a duty to defeat the railwaymen, he will henceforth hold his tongue.
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