4 NOVEMBER 1949, Page 5

I have referred more than once to the admirable work

being carried on by the Foreign Office at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, in the form of courses in British political practice, and indeed political practice generally, for selected parties of Germans, invited and brought from Germany expressly. I now hear that some of the German Land Governments have spontaneously offered a financial contribution to the work at Wilton Park. Whatever the intrinsic value of the contribution—and I do not in fact know what it is—

the evidence of the appreciation the Wilton Park courses have evoked is most encouraging.