15 DECEMBER 1939, Page 6

Life, as has not infrequently been observed before, is sometimes

hard. A day or two ago I met a Conservative M.P. who has occasionally supplied a little of the grist from which this column is laboriously ground. I asked him if he had anything to offer this time. " Yes," he answered, after a moment of reflection. " Yes. When Winston came into his office a day or two ago he said —." But I can quote no further. A self-imposed censorship inexorably descends. I cannot tell what Mr. Churchill said. I cannot even tell why I cannot tell. Life, as I say, is sometimes hard.

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