12 MAY 1961, Page 13

CHRISTIANSEN AND BEAVERBROOK

SIR,--1 read with interest Brian Inglis's review of Arthur Christiansen's Headlines All My Life, in which he refers to the 'rancorous passage in which Mi. Christiansen attacks my biography of Lord Beaverbrook.

Perhaps you will allow me to say that this passage contains inaccurate and misleading statements. In particular. Mr. Christiansen says that I accepted 'a large sum of money' to write this book. In its con- text, this clearly implies that I was commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook to write it. As my publishers and literary agents can confirm, this is completely untrue. —Yours faithfully.

House of Commons, SW1

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