A Spectator's Notebook
LORD BEAVERBROOK must, in all seriousness, have been a substantial factor in the Labour Party's L.C.C. victory. His attack on the co-operative societies stung all co-operative members into vigorous activity, and it is doubtful if it increased the Municipal Reform votes by half a dozen. The methods adopted by his papers told the same way. A friend of mine in a West End constituency, who was going out as a matter of course to vote Municipal Reform., caught sight of a Beaverbrook Press contents bill, " Keep Out The Hooligans," and promptly decided to leave voting alone rather than find himself in the same galley as that. Some explana- tion of the apparent apathy of Municipal Reformers may be found along these lines. As to the new L.C.C., I can imagine no better choice for Chairman than Lord Snell, who first in the L.C.C. itself, and since then in the Commons, in the Lords and at the India Office, has a most admirable record of able and unobtrusive public service behind him.
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