A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK I T is a pity that Mr. Churchill
has postponed—if not cancelled—his visit to the United States. The reason he has given, the precarious condition of the Government here and the possibility of its fall, is reason- able enough, and much to be preferred to the fears attributed to Mr. Bernard Baruch and others that the visit might be made the occasion for a display of anti- British feeling. It is singularly hard to believe that, in view of the reception the Conservative leader has always met with in America. His gifts have not forsaken him, and there can be little doubt either that balf America would listen to him on the radio or that he would speak with sufficient tact to conciliate public opinion rather than exacerbate it. One difficulty, indeed, there might be. Mr. Churchill. while anxious to defend his own country against random and irresponsible charges, might not find it so easy to defend the Government of his country in all things. But his experience of side-stepping Parliamentary qnestions should leave him equal to all occasions. I hope he will still go.
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