[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,110* differenili the same
words sound to' different ears. In your 'correspondent'snecount of the Oxford Group meeting at the Albeit Hall, he_states, " not a definite word. as.spoken." And yet the writer in the New Statesman, obviously not an adherent of the movement, heard a race-horse trainer say he no kinger swore at his jockeys ; heard a journalist say. he no 'longer drank ; heard mill-hands from Yorkshire say they had:abandoned certain dishonest practices and were now happy in their wink ; heard a South African Professor say he now Co-operated with the English instead of hating them.
Those seem quite definite statements. The Times correspon- dent at Montreux Says'On July 14th, "the Straits Conference today developed into a series of inter-delegation talks. . . .
By the evening a new deadlock was reached." r This is also definite, or indefinite, whichever you choose to call it.
The " indefiniteneSs " of the speakers at the Albert Hall who, owing to a change in themselves, found a new victory over personal excess, a new co-operation with their employees, with their employers, and with other nations, seems to offer a better chance of solving internal and international.problems than the definiteness of some of the statesmen today.—YOUM.
faithfully, ELSA RICHMOND. Great Kimble House, Aylesbury.
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