9 APRIL 1942, Page 13

— Miss Irene Ward's admirable article in a recent issue asks

search- questions that must have been in many minds since the penalties of edness began to fall upon us, and even before. Probably it is sible in the middle of a war to examine and recast our whole but this weighty statement of what is necessary, with its deter- insistence on a ruthless inquiry and its absence of any tendency Age any individual or department unheard, should not be allowed 411 into oblivion. Articles in weekly journals are ephemeral things,

however able and however vital. May we hope that, at the end of this long and bitter war, you will republish it, and that this country will insist on just such an inquiry, without fear or favour, as this article demands, and will go on insisting until it gets it?—Yours faithfully,

Ecchinswell House; Nr. Newbury. A. IRVING MUNTZ.