17 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 14

Sir,—Your correspondent Mr. Graham Greene, who told your readers last

week of his intention to form a John Gordon Society, must have been surprised to find himself being reviled in the Sunday Express by the very object of his admiration. A possible explana- tion is that Mr. Gordon has confused the Mr. Greene of your columns with another person of the same name, a novelist. Such an error on the part of an experienced journalist is not as improbable as a layman might think. Yet another confusion arose, a year or so ago, in the minds of Sunday Express readers when they read that a Mr. John Gordon, a Scottish journalist, was on trial for committing a mur- der in circumstances of which our own Mr. John Gordon would certainly not have approved.—Yours faithfully,

PETER WILDEBLOOD

30 St Paul's Road, Canonbury, NI