A Spectator's Notebook
ANGUS MCDONALD came round to the Spectator office three weeks ago with an introduction from a mutual friend, to ask if we would like articles from Cyprus and the Middle East. He had little journalistic experience, he admitted; but he thought he had managed to secure a seat on an aircraft going to Cyprus, and once there he hoped to be able to go on to Port Said. Would the Spectator accredit him as its correspondent? His enthusiasm and determination were infec- tious, and we had no hesitation in giving him the accreditation he required. A story he sent back from Cyprus was held up, for no discernible reason, by the authorities until long after it had become out of date; but last Friday an interesting account reached us of the landings at Port Said. He had got there, after all. He was returning, he said, to Cyprus; and later on Friday the news reached us that he had been killed by a terrorist's bullet while walking in the old city of Nicosia. It was characteristic that he should have been engaged on a series of interviews with leading Greek Cypriots in a deter- mination to find out what were their real, as distinct from their expressed, views on EOKA, on enosis, and on the possibility of a settlement. He had great promise and great courage.
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