18 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 6

The question I asked in this column a few weeks

ago, whether Sir Henry Chilton, the British Ambassador accredited to Madrid, really referred to the Spanish Republicans as " Reds " in an interview with the Daily Mail, has been put by Mr. Mander to the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons. As was to be expected Sir Henry flatly denied having done so. Yet the paper in question put the Ambas- sador's alleged statement in inverted commas and black type. The rule, I suppose, is that when you are inter- viewed by the Mail you must talk as the Mail does, and if you don't, you must be made to.

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