Fifty years ago
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." Strict- ly speaking, he exaggerates; there must have been intervals for sleeping and eat- ing, but no doubt they were very short intervals. On a conservative computa- tion, 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 transatlantic 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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