24 JULY 1947, Page 17

A THREAT TO THE LORDS

Aneurin Bevan's claptrap about the Will of the People and his feeble.. threats to the House of Lords recall the observation of a great member of that House and a great Prime Minister—Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury. He said: • " A Government that yields, and must yield, to the slightest wish of the House of Commons is only possible so long as that House of Commons is the organ of an educated minority. Such an instru- ment of Government has never yet in the history of the world been worked by a legislature chosen by the lower classes."

In those days the affairs of the country were quietly and efficiently conducted by persons who understood their business.—I am, Sir, &c.,

United University Club, r Suffolk Street, S.W.I.

ERIC SUTTON.