13 OCTOBER 1923, Page 12

CHANCELLERY."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—May I, as a former member of the Diplomatic Service, and .an old reader of the Spectator, be allowed to make a friendly protest against the word " Chancellery " which occasionally disfigures your columns? We do not speak of a ward in "chancellery," nor did the accusing spirit fly up to heaven's " chancellery " with Uncle Toby's oath.

" Chancellery " is almost on a par with that inexpressibly detestable word ' Britisher," and these two verbal atrocities might well be left to the Rothermere-Beaverbrook organs.—