WHAT MIGHT HAVE been infuriating in a lesser man Was
always endearing in Wadsworth, for his qualities are so various and his stature so very great that he could do anything with anybody and be admired the more for it. He will be greatlY missed in Cross Street, going about in his slippers, making his tea, and materialising at somebody's shoulder with the sort of remark (delivered in a high-pitched voice) that would hav been material for a speech from anybody else. His successor, Alastair Hetherington, is one of the most powerful journalist" of the new generation and he comes to great authority at th early age of thirty-six. He is a Scot abroad and readers of th Spectator may remember an article he wrote in our Scottish Supplement in May in which he asked : 'How many of ps expatriates would go back to work in Scotland if we had the chance?' For himself, as a journalist, he said : 'Words writtea in Fleet Street or Cross Street are more likely to have an inflo' ence towards the peace and prosperity of our times (even If only a small one) than words written off Buchanan Street or behind Waverley.' The peak in the south, he wrote, is loftie than in the north.
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