PEOPLE AND THINGS
By HAROLD NICOLSON
IN last week's issue of The Spectator appeared a letter from Miss Eleanor Rathbone on the subject of Mr. Duncan Sandys' first hundred thousand. It was a spirited letter and I hope it will produce some response. In myself, it aroused feelings of pleasure and of pain. Of pleasure, since I much admire Mr. Sandys; believe that his point of view is shared by many people under thirty; and am incensed by the sneers with which his gesture was greeted. Of pleasure also, since I delight in the way Miss Rathbone rushes about taking up cudgels. Most people (even if they be ambidexterous) find one cudgel at a time as much as they can manage; Miss Rathbone is not only provided, as was Vishnu, with four arms, but she collects additional cudgels in her lap. And who can blame her if from time to time (being thus encumbered), she takes up some fresh cudgel by the wrong end?
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