Letters to the Editor
Men at Waugh Lord Noel-Buxton, Anthony Carlisle Orange Squeeze W. Douglas Embassy Garden Party Cynthia L. Kittelsen Independent Critics Nancy Spain M. H. Middleton Nevile Wallis Plantation Politics Onta What Happened at Versailles? Carol Whitehead Keynesian Economics Frederic E. Holsinger Out Cold Xan Fielding MEN AT WAUGH Sia,-1 have met Nancy Spain several times. 1 am .a long-standing friend of Mr. John Mese- fleld, the Poet 'Laureate. One of Miss Spain's ambitions had always been to meet Mr. Mase- field and I duly arranged this. We had tea with Mr. Masefield and then went on west because I gathered that Miss Spain• had some business with Mr. Evelyn Waugh. At Mr. Waugh's front door we had a brief conversation with Mrs. Waugh, who told us that we could not (come in. During the quiet conversation there came from the room immediately on the right of the hall a cry : 'Tell them to get out.' So we turned away. As we did so, Mr. Waugh roared out and shut the door in our faces. He then came out of the house and barred the gates.
This incident was, a day or two later, inflated by Miss Spain into an article in the Daily Express, which would certainly have angered me if I had been Mr. Waugh. It angered me in my own character because Miss Spain put into my mouth words which I certainly did not utter; namely : 'I am not here on business. I am a member of the House of Lords.' I should like here to point out categorically that there was no exchange of any kind between Mr. Waugh and myself. Mr. Waugh is entitled to bp angry with Miss Spain; whether he is entMed to accept her version of my own part in the affair and to compose in consequence such an ill-mannered diatribe as you published in last week's issue is quite another matter. I admit that I am partly responsible for any misunderstanding that may have occurred in that I did not trouble to correct Miss Spain's falsifying of the incident—largely because it seemed to me that her piece, however irritat- ing, was of no consequence whatever. As to Mr. Waugh's observations on my family, your readers will already, no doubt, have formed their own opinion.—Yours faithfully, NOEL-BUXTON
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