We should like to ask any unprejudiced person who knows
Lord Crewe, and knows his public and private record—one absolutely stainless in the matter of delicacy and discretion— whether he thinks that Lord Crewe really believes that there was no harm in Lord Saye and Sole's letter, or that he was the victim of an unfair and unwarranted attack upon him by the Judge—the inference that the plain man would naturally ,draw from Lord Crewe's intervention in the debate. Of course this is not Lord Crewe's true position; but how are we to account for his action ? As we have said above, the Government are haunted at every turn by the ghost of the Marconi scandal They cannot mark their dis- approval of conduct such as that of Lord Saye and Sole after having solemnly declared that there was nothing in the Marconi, cam) of which the Ministers concerned need he ashamed or which called for Parliamentary condemnation. They cannot make one rule for the subordinate official and another rule for "high Ministers," as Lord Reading feelingly described them. It was all very well to punish an official like poor Mr. Taylor before the facts in the Marconi case came out Such punishment would be absolutely impossible now.
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