The Air Ministry, I feel, deserves commendation for the consistent
accuracy in its weather-forecasts throughout this unprecedented period. It may be argued, no doubt, that any second-division clerk could go on saying morning after morning " local snow-showers, some sunny periods, continuing very cold" ; but there is much more to it than that. Everybody hailed the first thaw with immense relief, but the Air Ministry warned that it couldn't last, and it didn't. The same thing happened a fortnight or so later. Then the Ministry said there would be sun by day, and there was. It said there would be fog in city areas and the fog came. Now it is talking about rain, which sounds on the whole thawish. If it is wrong about that I shall be quite ready to see the whole thing turned over to Mr. Shinwell. [Derniere Heure. It was wrong. But I think Mr. Noel-
Baker had better carry on, all the same.]
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