GREAT BRITAIN: London Make-Over

Still dazed at the political upset which gave their city a Laborite Government after 27 years of Conservative rule (TIME, March 19), Londoners were completely unprepared for the speed with which Herbert Morrison, their new "Prime Minister," went to work last week in London

County Council to fulfill campaign pledges. Though he was personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron...

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