The heading " Laski Talks Too Much " is taken
from the New York Sun and quoted by the Daily Telegraph. It covers an article by the Sun's regular columnist beginning : " Since the Labourites have come to power Harold Laski has done nothing but talk." Strictly speaking, he exaggerates ; there must have been intervals for sleep- ing and eating, but no doubt they were very short intervals. On a conservative computation, Mr. Laski must have talked about ten times as much on foreign policy as the Foreign Secretary. In the attack he delivered on the present Government of Spain in a trans- atlantic broadcast on Monday he explained that he was speaking in a personal capacity. That, with all respect, is nonsense. If Mr. Laski wants to speak in that capacity he should resign his chairmanship of the Labour Party ; so long as he holds such an office he is very much more than a private person. Why, in any case, The Times gave three-quarters of a column, some 1,300 words, to the broadcast in question—by a private person—is one of those journalistic puzzles which present themselves from time to time. * *
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