10 AUGUST 1951, Page 4

" Every man who reports a conversation in which he

himself has taken part gives ,subconsciously a twist to it to his own advantage."—Sir Charles Webster in last week's Spectator. " I quietly stuck to what I had said when Mr. Eden in the House of Commons demanded in a state of white heat that I should withdraw."—Mr. Morrison at Bellingham last. Monday. (The bit of italicising is an improvement of my own.) JANUS.