27 JULY 1962, Page 12

Sut,—In commenting on Mr. Selwyn Lloyd's en- forced resignation you

write: 'His was the kind of honest success which must be counted a failure. You list 'rigorous integrity' as one of his defects.

Must honesty and integrity now be accounted arl- desirable in our Ministers even if the practice of these virtues causes a political party to lose by- elections?

STEPHEN KING-HALL