27 FEBRUARY 1953, Page 13

The Editorship of the " Spectator "

The Board of the Spectator wish to place on record their deep appreciation of the distinguished service that Mr. Wilson Harris, whose editorship terminates on March 31st, has rendered to the paper for the last twenty years. He has had a memorable editorship, and has fully preserved the traditions maintained by his predecessors for a century and a quarter. The Board have appointed as his successor Mr. Walter Taplin who has been with the Spectator during the last seven years, first as Assistant Editor and more recently as Deputy Editor. They are con- fident that under his editorship the traditions of the paper will be in every way upheld.