24 APRIL 1964, Page 9

Spectator's Notebook

When we reached Harrogate we plunged at °nee into an immensely serious and enjoyable conference. The speakers included a bishop and a dean, as well as more orthodox lay preachers such as Bill Deedes and Christopher Chataway. I cherish from the after-dinner speeches a solemn quote from one of our better-known national papers—whose editors, of course, are no! nem- hers of the Guild: The girl had been beheaded and dismembered, but not interfered with.'