22 MAY 1947, Page 5

The death of Sir John Fischer Williams will waken many

regrets. For some years he had been out of active life, but those who knew him at the Bar, or as adviser to the Reparation Commission at Paris after the last war, or living later at his two homes, at Headington or at Gorran Haven in Cornwall, keeping always in touch with legal and international affairs and writing on them always with the pen of a warm humanist, not merely of an able lawyer, know well how valuable a contribution he made to international understanding between the wars. He was a Liberal in politics and essentially liberal in spirit, and both his liberalism and his devotion to law as the basis of order made him an unswerving supporter of the League of Nations.