16 AUGUST 1946, Page 4

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

JJANUS has left London for a well-earned holiday and for the next three weeks these notes will come to you from an altogether lower level. The finger of his deputy can by no stretch of the imagina- tion be said to be on the pulse of affairs. I am in the confidence neither of our rulers nor of their opponents, Ambassadors do not invite me to luncheon and though I once knew a Bishop he died, I am sorry to say, some years ago. Long absence from these shores during the war has destroyed whalt small chance I ever had of understanding about Bretton Woods and though I know, now, that Dumbarton Oaks is not connected with the Kentucky Derby I apprehend nothing else about it. But it were otiose to dwell further upon disabilities which will speak all too plainly for them- selves: the proof of the egg-powder is in the omelette.