We quite .understand
What has now happened to Miss Wid- dicombe is this: that she has been taken on to the full-time staff of the Financial Times, and having discussed with the FT her col- umn here, she tells me it will no longer be poSsible for her to write regularly for our pages and that she therefore resigns forth with.
The Chairman of the Royal Opera, in conversation with the Chairman of the SPECTATOR, has remarked more than once that tie cannot understand how the Editor of the SPECTATOR is not subject to the Chairman's orders on matters of editorial policy. Lord Drogheda would appear from such remarks to possess a very limited notion of editorial .freedom. He is also a member of the Newspaper Proprietors Association.
I cannot but observe that a direct con- sequence of the decision of the Financial Times has been to bring about that which Lord Drogheda sought assurances would not be brought about: namely a lapse (tem- porary of course) of that valuable critical at- tention the SPECTATOR has consistently devoted to such arts as music and the ballet.
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