12 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 15

THE ARCHBISHOPS ON THE CRISIS

Sta,—Janus (in your issue of September 5th) has slightly misquoted the Primates. Dr. Garbett, in the York Diocesan Leaflet, did not propose that "his Grace of Canterbury should invite the leaders of all political parties to a conclave in which the situation should be discussed and plans matured in an atmosphere of single-minded co-operation " ; his actual words were: "I should like the Prime Minister to call a round-table conference between the representatives of the parties to see if they could not agree on certain broad but definite lines of action." Nor did Dr. Fisher in the Canterbury Diocesan Notes suggest that " the duty of the Christian is . . . to do his work and do it well for its own sake," and leave it 'at that ; his actual words were: " There is a duty to one's neighbour ; and there is a duty to one's job and to do it well for its own sake ; and both are part of the Christian's duty to God."—I am, Sir, &c., St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, S.W. r. CHARLES SIVI YTIL