21 JUNE 1957, Page 15

SIR,—My admiration for Taper is almost unlimited, But Mr. or

Colonel Lipton, MP, is not the 'trouble- shooter' in the Tenby-tapping case. A 'trouble- shooter' is the expert sent in when the policy of all Government departments, 'never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you,' has, for once, broken down.

Mr. R. A. Butler is the 'trouble-shooter.' He isn't shooting very well, but the range has been `snafued' (to use another Americanism) by, as Taper rightly remarks, the worst Home Secretary since Lord Kilmuir,—Yours faithfully,

D. W. BROGAN