30 JUNE 1950, Page 7

Supplementary questions in the House of Commons have to be

shot off without much thought ; otherwise it is too late to shoot them off at all. That must be Major Peter Roberts' excuse for offering the outrageous suggestion that an atom bomb should be dropped on the capital of Northern Korea—an interrogative which was promptly disallowed by the Speaker and at the earliest possible moment repudiated officially on behalf. of the Conservative Party. Major Roberts is a hard-headed business man, interested particu- larly in coal and engineering, who represents the third generation of his family to sit as Conservative for a Sheffield division. He has caused his party some embarrassment this time.

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