15 APRIL 1943, Page 14

EASTRE "

Sitt,—Permit me to applaud Mr. Harold Nicolson's sympathy " with those who contend that a fixed Easter might give a pagan flavour to the solemn ceremonies of the Christian Church." But surely your distinguished con- tributor meant to say " a more pronounced pagan flavour," since worshippers of Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring, secured for their race, and still secure, a word in the festival of our Saviour's