25 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 9

Enter the Participant Robert Conquest, in the last 'Spectator's Note-

book' before the change of editor last December, wrote: `I understand that there is no truth in the suggestion that this column will in future be called "A Participant's Notebook." ' It has taken a general election to make his pleasant jest come true. For the next three weeks I will be contributing a notebook from the hust- ings, Desmond Donnelly will be giving a Labour Party view of the campaign, and the trusty Watchman will produce the 'Spectator's Note- book.' Any resemblance between the three views expressed will be entirely coincidental.