THE BRITISH COUNCIL
SIR,—I observe the eagerness with which you publicise and lend your support in your issue of June 11th to the attack which the staff of the British Council have made on the Evening Standard.
You say " If the Association's case is well founded then Lord Beaverbrook's campaign has not been that kind of fair campaign which a newspaper is entitled to run against an institution it disapproves of . . . It has indeed been a campaign of jaunty and underbred calumny."
But surely you have had ample time to decide whether the asociation's case is well or ill founded. The Evening Standard on Friday, June 4th, published a leader which replied in detail, and 1 believe effectively, to every single charge the staff of the British Council made against it.
. You make no reference of any kind to that reply. You print the allegation, you suppress the defence.
It would seem to me that in so doing you are guilty of the very crime of which the staff of the British Council have tried des- perately and vainly to accuse the Evening
Standard.—Yours faithfully, PERCY ELLAND
Evening Standard, 47 Shoe Lane, E.C.4
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