19 JULY 1946, Page 4

Lord Templewood's book on his Ambassadorship at Madrid, when it

is published in ten days' time, will provide perhaps unexpected fuel for the fires the anti-Franco brigade in this country are trying to kindle. Lord Ternplewood as Ambassador had, of course, to observe normal courtesies in relation to the Spanish Government— an Ambassador who gets at loggerheads with the Government he has to deal with is virtually useless—but he is under no such restraint now, and the vigour of many of his comments on the Spanish Administration will surprise some at least of his own critics. Inci- dentally, a few introductory pages of autobiography and self-analysis (which I have been given opportunity of seeing in advance) give an instructive indication of the writer's general point of view—as he meant that they should.