BY COMPARISON WITH Mr. Herbert Morrison he was probably harmless.
Mr. Morrison has con- firmed my opinion of him by actually boasting of the use he made of his phone-tapping powers. He claims that press and Parliament are safeguards; but if neither newspapers nor MPs are allowed to
have details of any case of phone-tapping, what sort of safeguard is that? As for Mr. Morrison'' claim that 'the innocent have nothing to fear,' thi' is the best argument I have heard yet for takini the power out of Home Office hands; in case ma should get another Morrison. Still, the man wit( has come worst out of the affair appears to la' Sir Hartley Shawcross. If it is true that Sir Hartle--y..11 in his capaCity as Chairman of the Bar Counc! not merely used the transcripts from the wirei tapping in his cross-examination of Mr. Marri' nan but used them without telling Marrinan that they were in the Council's possession, then Sit Hartley hardly exemplified the tradition whicr Mr. Marrinan has been found guilty of failing to uphold: that conduct should be becoming to barrister and a gentleman.
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