Mr. Morrison seems to have been in a singularly peevish
mood on Wednesday. After he had answered a number of interroga- tions on Festival of Britain food prices, Mr. Eden's question whether some other Minister than the Foreign Secretary could not look after this sort of thing was extremely pertinent. For Mr. Morrison to call this a political attack is simply silly. Mr. Eden is by no means the first person to take the view that in the present state of international affairs it would be well for the Foreign Secretary to concentrate on Foreign Office work, as his predecessor did. Asked on Wednesday whether it was true that ninepence was charged for a cup of coffee on the South Bank, Mr. Morrison replied that be would look into it. Should a Foreign Secretary really be spending his time looking into the pnce of cups of coffee?
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