AFTER CRITICISING a number of the daily papers for suggesting'
that Mr. Wilson and others in the Labour Party did not come very well out of the Bank' rate business, Tribune-went on to sum up the affair thus : Mr. Wilson - told the police, to folio* a car because it had -not got a rear- light; it was' later proved the • car did have a rear light, but there was a corpse in the 'back of it. Even if this was a fair summary: it would not be very flattering to Mr. Wilson. But the true analogy is surely this Mr. Wilson said, 'Follow that car, there is a corpse in the back of it'; later he said that it had not got .a rear light, either. But when the police caught up with the car; there was no corpse, and the car did have a rear light. It seems to me that Tribune and those Labour MPs who think Mr. Wilson's behaviour in smearing Mr. Oliver Poole was justified because it produced the inquiry have missed the resemblance between their attitude and one which was very common in America a -few years ago. Then the refrain of a great many. Americans was, 'Of course, I don't approve of his methods, but he's doing a valuable job.' They were referring, of course, to the, late Senator McCarthy.
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