ABSTRACT
Lohan next day challenged, through the Media, Wilson’s end-of-debate statements about him. Radcliffe and Selwyn Lloyd (Shinwell declined to comment) said publicly they could not remember anything being said in evidence to them about an inappropriate relationship between Pincher and Lohan. There was no let-up in wider Press criticism of Wislon’s handling of the affair. The Press Gazette of 24 June commented adversely on the ideas put to editors: ‘Mr Wilson’s transparently unhappy idea of shoving an ex-editorial man into Col. “Sammy” Lohan’s job was a washout from the beginning. It suffered from the wishful-thinking syndrome that may have given Mr. Shinwell his place on the Radcliffe Committee – with similarly unpleasing results for No. 10’. Almost all national and provincial editors were wholeheartedly against major change to the structure of the D-Notice Committee, and the Chairman and Secretary coming from the ‘newspaper world’.
