A Spectator's Notebook
WHEN ma Spectator a few weeks ago published a leader on anti-Semitism I wondered whether • a fierce correspond- ence would ensue. It didn't. A few letters came in, but there was no feeling of con- - — troversy, still less of heat. A good sign? Perhaps. There was, however, one interesting reaction to the article, in the form of a series of quotations from the confidential reports prepared on job-seeking students and prospective employers by the Cambridge Univer- sity. Appointments Board between 1952 and 1954. (The remarks are by different members of the Board, though there was one member who was not responsible for any of them.) I don't think any comment is necessary.
Not v. appetising looking—short and Jewy and wet palms but seems a versatile chap and quite a figure anyhow in the bridge and chess world.
Jewish, of course.
Looks Jewish and wears Jewish cut clothes.
The partners are Jewish, but the firm is not of the sharp or slick variety which is sometimes brought to mind when Jewish solicitors are mentioned.
Mr. M-- looks exactly like a Jewish Mr. Truman, but in manner and speech is so much a model of Oxford refinement and culture that it was almost overwhelming.
1 fear an unattractive chap—if only because one is instinctively drawn to feel this about the chosen race which he must surely stem from. Small. sallow—raven hair—and fleshy nose. I think more of the reaction of potential em- ployers than my own, of course.
Nice looking young Hebrew. Jewish but the refined kind.
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