1 OCTOBER 1932, Page 6

I sometimes fancy I am not a Conservative, but when

I see an announcement like The Times' warning of its impending change of type I know I am—in such matters at any rate. It is no use telling me the paper will be as good as ever. I know better. And the sacrilege is symp- tomatic. When Printing House Square discards its Gothic title for Roman no one can count throne or altar safe. For me it is the beginning of Bolshevism The Times will be appointing a correspondent at Moscow next.

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