5 JUNE 1947, Page 5

This has been a good year for Lord Simon of

Wythenshawe. A lifelong Liberal, he stood (unsuccessfully), when still Sir Ernest Simon, as an Independent at the Combined English Universities by.- election. A little later he decided to join the Labour Party. A little later he became a Labour peer. A little latex he has been invited, and has consented, to accept the burden and emoluments attaching to the chairmanship of the B.B.C. Quite good going in