SIR,—Mr. Fairlie, commenting on my letter in last week's Spectator,
writes:
`Mr. Churchill spends most of his time conducting assaults on the "Establishment." The reason why, in this specific case, he has rallied to the "Establishment's" side would, I think, produce a clue to its nature.' Reference to my letter will convince anyone, except Mr. Fairlie, that I made no defence of what he calls the 'Establishment.' The only person I was trying to defend was Lady Violet Bonham Carter. My reasons for doing this were (1) that she is a friend of mine who had been wantonly and unjustly attacked, and (2) that in the words of Ogden Nash, 'In any high-class hullabaloo I dearly love to holler too.' Mr. Fairlie does not seem to like answering straight questions. In spite of this I will ask him two:
(1) What words of mine in my letter to the Spectator are in defence of the 'Establish- ment'?
(2) Now that he knows my reasons for joining in this controversy (which he could easily have found out by asking me), will he tell me what light they cast on the nature of the 'Establishment'?—Yours faithfully,
RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL
Stour, East Bergholt, near Colchester, Essex
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