26 JUNE 1941, Page 12

" MUDDLE, MESS AND MAKE-BELIEVE " SIR,—In fairness to the

Food Controller, the suggestion that he shows more regard to vested interests than knowledge of working- class budgets is rather wide of the mark. Some of the best years of Fred Marquis (now Lord Woolton) were spent as Warden of the David Lewis Settlement and Hostel in Liverpool, where his portrait in oils occupied the place of honour in the Clubroom when I knew the Settlement well.—Yours, &c., EDMUND S. BIRD. 22 Miter Street, E.G. 3.