4 JULY 1952, Page 7

The nearest Miss Jennie Lee's article comes to doing this

is when she writes : " There ought not to be a cash barrier around the Queen. The approach to the Palace ought not to be through secondhand or hired clothes." This does not come well from the wife of Mr. Aneurin Bevan, whom I vividly recall seeing at a Court 'Ball in a lounge suit which, though not particularly well cut, had not the appearance of being either secondhand or hired. I thought this affectation of Mr. Bevan's was rather bad manners. His hosts, on the invitation which they sent him, had made only two specifica- tions. One was the date and time at which, and the other Was the clothes in which, they requested the pleaSure of his company. To conform to the first while disregarding the second seems to me mildly ignoble.