Spectator's Notebook
TE President de Gaulle had been in London on 1-Monday night, he might have been gratified by the impression created by his overturning of the diplomatic beehives. I went to a party where (by candlelight, symbolically enough) there was no other topic of conversation. It came as a sur- prise next morning to realise that the Mirror's headline, 'THE MOST HATED MAN IN BRITAIN,' re- ferred to Mr. Doyle rather than the President. One had forgotten for a moment the existence of the rest of the world; but since this state seems to have become a permanent one with President de Gaulle himself, the lapse is understandable. We should remember that many Frenchmen share the general misgiving- about the. Gaullist Policy of splendid isolation. A high French official was heard the other day to refer feelingly to the difficulty of being ruled by 'a mixture of Vercingetorix and Fidel Castro.'
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