NEWS OF THE WEEK • D IMING the week the Marconi
inquiry has continued to hold the first place in public attention, and the news- papers of Wednesday and Friday were filled with verbatim reports of the proceedings running into many columns, giving the answers of Sir Rufus Isaacs. To summarize the evidence, in addition to dealing with the general aspects of the question as we have done in our issue of to-day, would, we feel, exhaust the patience of our readers, and anything but a full summary in these notes might seem unfair and one- sided. We shall therefore not attempt to give any précis of the proceedings except to deal with one small point which affects the Spectator. Mr. Mooney appeared to think that a grievous wrong had been done to Sir Rufus Isaacs because according to him (Mr. Mooney) there was a statement in the Spectator suggesting that Sir Rufus Isaacs had paid £5 for each share. The point is really unimportant. We spoke of the shares being bought "apparently at £5 a share." We took this figure from a statement in the Daily Express of Thursday the 20tb, made by Mr. Godfrey Isaacs to the representative of that paper.
