24 JUNE 1955, Page 35

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Sitt,—Mr. Randolph Churchill has had

the effrontery to invent two arguments and to attribute them to me, in order that he may denounce them as 'remarkably fallacious.' To call the PROs' influence pernicious, as I did, need not imply that the PROs are themselves to blame, any more than to call opium addic- tion pernicious implies a condemnation of the poppy; undoubtedly the newspapers must share the discredit. As for the other argument, that advertisers owe the newspapers a living, I do not know where Mr. Churchill found it: certainly not in my article.—Yours faithfully,