26 SEPTEMBER 1958, Page 7

I WOULD LIKE to apologise to both the Daily Express

and Mr. Dermot Morrah for what wrote last week. I was misled by the obvious chagrin of the Express at having missed the Townsend biography into believing that its counter-measures were a stunt. They were not, since it had secured the serialisation rights of Mr. Dermot Morrah's book The Work of the Queen, which is to be published by Kimber on October 6. Not knowing this I impliedly, though quite unwittingly, maligned Mr. Morrah; and was quite incorrect in assuming that the Express was indulging in what is colloquially called 'trader's puff.' Mr. Morrah's book, which I read over the weekend, is, as one would expect, expertly informed and completely authoritative. I apologise