23 DECEMBER 1932, Page 6

I have been asked whether the obiter dicta of Janus

• represent the considered editorial opinions of the Spectator. I should be sorry to have to take that responsibility on my shoulders. My function is to comment On men and events as I see them, on lines that shill not be violently repugnant from those of the paper for which I write. But this is very definitely A Spectator's Notebook, not The