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What an odd situation! I wonder if the reasoning belind the classification was the fear of creating a "crown prince's party" which might be tempted into evil plots to do away with the incumbent and put their man in his place? Or, more likely it was because, in the aftermath of the Sharples murder, there was an under- standable

• a rash of further clicise action that looked as if wen

on

see no objection now to quietly downgrading the commisions: in most, if not all, cases the man designated is presumably the one who

normally