14 SEPTEMBER 1944, Page 12

THE PSALMIST'S SPAN

Stn,—In his review of my little book Problems of the Peace Sir Frederick Whyte observes (in regard, I think to himself as well as me) that "di! experience of those who now approach the psalmist's alloted span of life" must have some value. I am indeed approaching that vital milestone cannot remember any moment in my life when I was not ; but to avoid misconceptions (based probably enough on my liability to septuagenarati idiosyncrasies) perhaps I may mention that, as Somerset House can attest, the milestone in question is still, so far as I am concerned, more than nine