21 OCTOBER 1955, Page 19

BALDWIN AND REARMAMENT

Sta.—Mr. Gaitskell was certainly wrong about Baldwin, but so is Pharos. Baldwin was talk- ing about the situation reflected in the result of the Fulham by-election of 1933, but, as Pharos's own quotation makes clear, he was not talking about that by-election but about a general election—a hypothetical one of 1933 or 1934 which would have been lost if fought on a policy of rearmament. The confusion still manifested hot only by Mr. Gaitskell but also by Pharos in correcting him suggests that it is still worth while to refer readers to Mr. Bassett's exposition in the Cambridge Journal for November, 1948.—Yours faithfully,

J. C. MAXWELL ing's College, Newcastle-upon-'Tyne, 1