OWNERSHIP OF THE PRESS
StE,—In your issue of July 26th (page 78) there is a paragraph with regard to the suggested Government enquiry concerning the Press. In this paragraph you say: "Everything anyone can want to know about the ownership of the principal national papers can be discovered from the Stock Exchange Year Book and the share-registers at Somerset House." May I ask whether The Spectator can tell us from the sources mentioned or from any other source who is (or are) the owner (or owners) of the Daily Mirror and The Sunday Pictorial?—Yours faithfully, [This raises the nice question of what a " principal national paper " is. Sir Stanley Holmes is right in suggesting that the two papers about whose ownership doubt does exist are the Daily Mirror, now a strong supporter of the Labour Party, and its Sunday edition, The Sunday Pictorial.—ED., The Spectator.]
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