23 FEBRUARY 1934, Page 6

The reappointment of Mr. John Buchan as Lord High Commissioner

to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is most essentially a recognition of services rendered. Appointment for a second year is not unusual in itself, but it is rarely that a second term has been earned by so brilliant a success as marked. Mr. Buchan's tenure of the office last year. He is, unlike most previous High Commissioners, a son of the Manse, a fact which would have gone some way towards extenuating even an undistinguished discharge of a High Commissioner's duties. Actually, of course, they were discharged in Mr. Buchan's case with marked distinction.