14 AUGUST 1942, Page 12

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SIR,—" Janus " considers the calling up of Dr. Curtis, aged 39, an " un- deserved hardship." He took a•somewhat similar view over the calling up of the Editor of the Evening Standard.

It seems calling up is a hardship which should only be inflicted on those who deserve it. What a regrettable view.—I am, Sir, your obedient

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servant, DUDLEY LEWIS, Lt.-Col. (R.A.R.O.) Rosslyn, Blackbarough Road, Reigate, Surrey.

[" Janus " writes: On re-reading my paragraph I cannot find any basis for this interpretation. In summarising the facts about Dr. Curtis I mentioned, for the sake of completeness, that he was called up as a private But the " undeserved hardship obviously consisted in being labelled as a man whom a Government Department could not properly employ. It is hardly worth while recurring to the case of the Editor of the Evenin Standard, which involved important but quite different considerations.]

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