28 MARCH 1947, Page 5

There appears to be not the smallest foundation for the

suggestion which a morning paper is disseminating that Mr. Bevin is likely to leave the Foreign Office to become " planner-in-chief " to the Government. The story is scouted in Moscow where Mr. Bevin at present is, and in the Foreign Office where he habitually works.

There is no reason to believe it ever had the slightest basis.