29 MARCH 1957, Page 7

• Randolph Churchill and an order for What I said

about the Press, although on a higher level Smith's had refused to have anything to do with the book. and said I would be interested to hear the sequel. (Smith's, incidentally, do not accept that their bookstalls—it happened at two of them—under- took to order a copy; they say that they undertook merely to find out if it were possible to get one.) Anyway, Smith's have now returned the money to Mr. Churchill, saying that they are not handling his book on legal advice, and adding that they understand it can be obtained from Country Bumpkins Ltd. Which, on this particular round, though not on the larger issue, just about levels