A week or two ago Will Arnold-Forster, as he was
known to all his friends, sent me a noticq,of the exhibition of his pictures now showing at the Colnaghi galleries. A few days later his son (with whom readers of the Spectator are familiar) told me it was unlikely that the artist would be well enough to be present. Now his death is announced. A great deal could' be written about him. He was artist, gardener, and a really first-class authority on international affairs,• particularly the League of Nations and the United Nations. I doubt whether he ever wrote anything more useful than a pamphlet which the Oxford Press published after the first war, correcting widely prevalent misconceptions (prevalent particularly among many of Arnold-Forster's own friends) about the post-war blockade of Germany.
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