Party Manners SIR,—Your reviewer of Party Manners must have a
very short memory when he can write that " It was indeed as tasteless as it was implausible to suggest, as Mr. Gielgud does, that a Socialist Minister might be capable of subordinating, on the eve a General Election, the interests of the nation to those of his party." Whatever may be said of Socialist Ministers, surely Mr. Fleming cannot have forgotten that what he describes as " implausible" was actually done by a Conservative Prime Minister in 1935. Referring to the General Election of that year, Mr. Baldwin, in speaking in the Debate on the Address on November 12th, 1936, said: " Supposing 1 had gone to the country and said that (. ermany was rearming, and that we must realm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry ? I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss af the election from my point of view more certain." If this is not an example of subordinating the interests of the nation to those of a party, I domrait know what is.—
I remain, yours faithfully. new J. H. Ev*Ns. Leigh Vicarage, Sherborne. Dorset.'
[One more example o#--the dancers of .satire.—..Es k, Spectator.]
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