A conference between the parties was held without result and
litigation has begun. The case will presumably turn on the medical evidence of the doctors who attended Lord North- cliffe in his last illness—Dr. Seymour Price, Dr. Herbert French, Sir Thomas Horder, Sir James Mackenzie, and a New York physician who saw Lord Northcliffe just before he died. By consent of the parties, Sir George Sutton has been appointed administrator pendente lite fore the personal estate. The matter in contention is one on which we desire to express only one opinion. Should the control pass to Lady Northcliffe, all who know her and respect her—and they are synonymous terms— will feel sure that her sole desire will be to use her power for worthy ends. She will feel that the best way of showing the love and devotion to her husband which never failed her will be, if she feels able to retain the Times, to maintain it at the highest standard and to regard her ownership as a trust.
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