17 NOVEMBER 1967, Page 27

Fleet Street intelligence

Sir: The writer of your 'Fleet Street Intelligence' (10 November) must be either very young or very ignorant. Tom Fraser was never Secretary of State for Scotland; Tom Johnston was—the greatest tht Scotland. has ever had. Tom Johnston created die Hydro-Electric Board to which Tom Fraser has now gone.

Alastair Hetherington The Guardian, 192 Grays Inn Road, London WC1 If the editor of the Guardian would have US believe that it was the resignation of Tom Johnston as Secretary of State for Scotland in May 1945 that caused the Labour ddbacle at Hamilton twenty- two and a half years, seven general elections and one by-election later, then he is even more eccen- tric than we thought.—Editor, SPECTATOR.