18 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 8

DR. HELEN KELLER, the deaf-blind American scholar, who has been

visiting England for two days, paid the Spectator a com- pliment at her press conference on Wednesday. Asked how she kept in touch with British affairs, she said that she regularly read the Spectator. Dr. Keller's guide and friend (she is her own philosopher) copies into Braille each week such parts of this paper as she thinks will be of interest, and these are avidly devoured. If we can claim the credit for being her link with British affairs, it seems to me that we can feel proud.

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