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Sir: Chaim Bermant should not grumble too pay', 30 January)

should not grumble too much. In the summer of 1946 The Spectator published an article of mine about our troubled times in Palestine where I was stationed. For this, the then editor Ralph Harris, I think it was, paid me £6, which was about my weekly pay as a subaltern. If nothing else his remuneration from The Spectator has kept abreast of inflation.

J. M. Rampton

Easton Lodge, Easton, Norwich