A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
1 N the regretted absence of Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr. Churchill 1 has provided himself with a new sparring-partner in the Minister of Food. The advantage of that is that the display need not be confined to Thursdays. Mr. Strachey answers questions at least twice a week and they must be a set dull beyond all precedent not to provide the necessary starting-point of controversy. Last week it was the action of the Ministry in withholding butter that a doctor had recommended for a patient which set things moving. Sir Ernest Graham Little or someone had put the question down, but before he knew where he was Mr. Churchill was in charge and the blows fell thick and fast enough to keep the claques on either side ceaselessly vocal. On Wednesday it was the right of entry by Ministry Inspectors into private houses alleged to be used for the manufacture of _food. Someone called the action despicable. Mr. Strachey condemned the use of such a word ; Mr. Churchill defended it ; and so they were off. It is no doubt amusing for the veteran and very good practice for the junior, who so far has given fully as good as he has got. Another little bout (but not a very big one) wouldn't do us any harm.
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