Low is striking out a new line. He is to
publish a strip cartoon (daily, I think) in the Daily Herald. The experiment will be watched with hope and interest by his friends and admirers, who have been genuinely distressed by his almost total eclipse since he left the Evening Standard. It is an odd thing. Low's convictions are identical with the Daily Herald's, if not more so (so to speak), but he is evidently stimulated by an alien atmosphere, and the pungency with which his pencil constantly challenged the fundamental tenets of his employer, Lord Beaver- brook, was one Of the many factors which made Low in the Evening Standard (and in the next morning's Manchester Guardian) a necessity to every educated man. Perhaps the Daily Herald is too easy. Perhaps in each case his work reflects the per- sonality of the controllers of his paper—in this case good, sound trade unionists. Anyhow, Low is now starting something new, and everyone to whom he has been priceless in the past will wish him luck.
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