[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sm,—Mr. Norman Angell complains that "not a single paper in England " criticized the vulgar spectacle in a Paris musie hall, where a group of white women and black men, all in a semi-nude condition, performed together in a rather riotous dance. It is true that very few of .the English newspapers drew attention to the scene, but Mr. Angell will find that we criti• eared it in our issue of May 24th, 1925.—I am, Sir, &c., WM. PAUL, Editor, The Sunday Worker. 74 Swinton Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, WC. 1..
• T. M. writes : "Why, when in theory it is recognized that the unclothed human body is a beautiful thing, any attempt to put that theory into practice is treated as an outrage to decency, must bewilder anyone who is apt to base his opinion on facts, rather than on an emasculate convention. The Periclean Greeks, whose claim to supreme taste in nearly all matters can scarcely be denied, elevated the human body to its right place in the scheme of beauty, and their perfect feeling for the appropriate confined its display to their youth.
Where they led, let us not be ashamed nor afraid to follow. Mr. Angel's article sheds a faint gleam of sunshine on the sea of mental mud in which we wallow."
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