THE SHORTAGE OF PAPER
The paper situation, instead of easing, grows more acute. Drastic rationing is in operation, and The Spectator, which is already reduced to just over half its average pre-war size, must inevitably suffer further reduction yet. This is likely to be the last 28-page paper we shall publish till conditions change radically. Alterations in make-up, which have been postponed as long as possible, will now be necessary, and in some sections of the paper smaller print will be used, even though some readers, it is feared, may find it trying. One or two regular features may have to be temporarily dropped or curtailed ; the competition is among the former, finance among the latter. No such restrictions can be applied without some loss, but it is not believed that readers buy The Spectator primarily for the quantity of matter it contains. It will be our chief endeavour that there shall be no falling off in quality, and all the essential features of the paper will be retained. In such circumstances we appeal to readers to be tolerant, and even sympathetic.
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