26 JUNE 1926, Page 13

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I hate to trouble

you again after the generous allowance of space you gave me last week. But I must ask to be allowed to say in reply to your leading article :- I. That I did not accuse the Spectator of " base

opportunism." I used that phrase to describe the policy which it urged upon Socialists.

2. I did not speak of sport and gambling in connexion with parasitic dividend drawers. I said that Capitalist • chiefs blunted the sharpness of their intellects by these pastimes.

3. I did not charge capitalists with preaching Class Warfare, but with practising it.

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