30 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 4

Three weeks ago I ventilated in this column a suggestion

(not my own) regarding honour to General Eisenhower, that "some beau- tiful and historic house might be subscribed for and presented to the National Trust, with some or all of the rooms set apart for the General's use." On Monday it was announced that almost pre- cisely this had happened, Culzean Castle, in Ayrshire, having been presented to the National Trust for Scotland by Lord and Lady Ailsa, and the upper part of the castle prepared for the use of General Eisenhower and his guests during his lifetime. Whether there is ground for saying post hoc ergo propter hoc I rather doubt,

but at any rate there is evidence of considerable identity of idea * *