If Mr. Brendan Bracken's intention to resign his seat is
carried into effect the House of Commons will lose a very picturesque figure and a very pungent speaker. His last office was a brief tenure of Admiralty House, but it was as Minister of Informa- tion for four years during the war that he was best known. He was a very good Minister—accessible, reasonable and always anxious to give the Press the fullest licence which consideraT tions of national safety permitted. His constituents naturally, want him to change his mind. I hope he will resist their pressure. His contention, that in these days of narrow majorities there is no place for a member whose attendance at the House cannot be regular, is unanswerable. Of course, if Providence should afflict some member of the Opposition with sinus trouble; too, so as to make a pair, the case might be different. * * * *
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