CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
SIR,—Support for the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment is in- creasing with extraordinary speed. A signifi- cant pointer was provided by the debate at the Oxford Union on November 3, at which Mr. Gerald Gardiner, QC, supported abolition, and Mr. Philip Ingress Bell, QC, MP, opposed it. The hall can never have been fuller. Extra rows of seats were put down and, in spite of this, every inch of standing room,was packed. And there can have been few occasions when the majority in favour of a motion has been so large. The figures were 378 for, 161 against —more than two to one in favour. There was a majority of only forty when the same subject was debated a couple of years ago.
Oxford has shown that she can be the home of winning, as well as of lost, causes.—Yours Chairman 14 Henrietta Street, London, WC2
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