12 JANUARY 1951, Page 18

The Stone

Sul,—The Celts were ever litholaters; the Soots differ from my com- patriots of the Principality only in being more noisy. We too have our grievance, and it goes back in time quite considerably beyond their earliest royal Kenneth, and yet we have held our peace. The grievance ? Why, the brutal act of wrenching from the matrix of our native hills that Blue Stone of Presoelly that is the pride of Stonehenge. Your strictures, Sir, are very timely, for if England were to submit to this sort of thing the fashion might quickly spread to megalithic proportions.—