29 JULY 1955, Page 7

I SAW THIS WEEK on the front page of n

national newspaper a bold, black paragraph containing the important news, from the British United Press Correspondent in Stockholm, that the entry on Mr. Malenkov in the new impression of the Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary has been cut by half and purged of the favourable adjectives. Even his father has been demoted. All this would have excited me rather more had it not been recorded in this very column five Spectators ago. Poor Stock- holm—it's not the listening.post it used to be.