22 MARCH 1940, Page 21

THE NIGHTMARE " OF OFFICE

SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, in his interesting "People and Things " of last week, tells us that his fantasy of becoming Prime Minister is a "day-dream." . . . Surely this is a mistake in the use of words, uncommon in so fastidious a writer? To everyone else it would be a nightmare.—Yours faithfully,