10 OCTOBER 1941, Page 13

Sta,—I would like to back up your admirable remarks about

fifth-rate magazines in your last issue. The enclosed [from a weekly magazine] is a carefully described account of pure bestiality, and for once I do not mean it metaphorically.

We are fighting for decency, &c., &c., as loudly proclaimed by the daily Press, but while this sort of thing is on sale (and recently it has appeared on the station platforms) how can we talk ?—Yours, &c., T. P. LAWRENCE. Conservative Club, St. 7ames's Street, S.W. I.