30 DECEMBER 1938, Page 3

Mr. Harold Nicolson and "The Spectator" The Hon. Harold Nicolson,

M.P., whose recent series of broadcast talks, entitled "People and Things," attained wide popularity, will as from next week's issue, the first of 1939, contribute a weekly page, under the same title, to The Spectator. Mr. Nicolson has achieved high dis- tinction in the fields of diplomacy (it fell to him to convey to Prince Lichnowsky his formal conge on the night of August 4th, 1914), politics and literature, and his weekly notes will cover those and many other subjects. He will write with complete freedom and the views he expresses will not of necessity be always identical with The Spectator's —though in point of fact divergencies between the two are likely to be rare and inconsiderable.