[To THE El:MTG.:A Or THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-111 collision, I doubt
not, with ninny of your readers who for the last ten years and more have found their own opinions faith- fully reflected in the Spectator, I experienced this morning a great shock, not uninitiated with indignation, on reading your leading article in last week's issue of your paper. That the Spectator should have chosen this time of all others to join with the Pacificists and other unscrupulous politicians in seeking deliberately to weaken the Government and embarrass the nation by such an attack on the Prime Minister would be unbelievable if it were not unfortunately- the fact. And you seek to justify your " brutal " attack (I use your own word) by rending meanings into the Paris speech and drawing inferences from it which I venture to say nine out of every ten of your readers are wholly unable to find in it. The alleged attack on our Chief of the Staff and Generals in the field is nothing but n figment of your own imagine- lion. Is the Spectator then in the future to be found amongst those who in their smug complacency cannot hear to be told the Idols, unvarnished trolls ? And the conclusion which you draw that, after all our past experiences, we should revert to an Asquith [Our correspondent should read the strategical lessons drawn from Mr. Lloyd George's speech in the letter written by Mr. Sparrow. The phrase "brutal frankness" was Mr. Lloyd, George's.—En. Spectator.]
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