A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE Chinese appreciate tact, and the precautions taken by Mr. Hammarskj8ld to insulate his mission to Peking against controversy and misunderstanding are not likely to be wasted. Few sensible people will criticise his refusal to apply for facilities for a retinue of special correspondents to accompany him; he will get on better without them. His request to the British Government to provide him with an expert on international law is now to be met by Professor Huniphrey Waldock of Oxford, whose previous experience in foreign fields includes service on the Italo-Yugoslav Boundary Commission after the last war. The Prime Minister's original Intention was to send the Attorney-General, but possibly it was felt that an academic rather than a political figure might be a more appropriate member of so severely neutral a team.
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