12 AUGUST 1949, Page 4

Before handing back this Notebook to less wayward hands (for

to the general relief the steam-packet has brought Janus back safely from who can say what escapades in Europe) I Should like to thank (a) the reader who wrote from Whetstone in North London to reprove mc for wasting space on—among other things—discourteous remarks about the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in the matter of my summerhouse, and (b) the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, who telephoned to thank me for a piece of con- structive criticism which they were circulating among the relevant