Letters to the Editor
Mr. Randolph Churchill Randolph S. Churchill
Sabbatarianism Christopher Hollis, Rev. R. W. Maitland Consumers and Monopolies Jack Merricks Apology for Comedians John Braine Floundering on the Veld Brigadier C. E. D. Bridge Lambeth Rev. Hugh Montefiore Archbishop Makarios and the Lambeth Conference Canon Herbert Waddams Ns and The Isis James MacGibbon Nights of Bath Celadon August Assets and Liabilities L. M. Hopkins Foreign Currency B. A. Thorp Black and White in Rhodesia C. Conseil
Catering at Glyndebourne J. D. K. Lloyd
The Dover Car Ferry F. D. Y: Faulkner The Curtis-Bennett Family Julian Symons MR. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
SIR, In your issue of June 13 Mr. A. T. R. Robinson complains that I have not made a 'blistering' attack on Lord Beaverbrook. It is always easy to attribute base motives to people With whom you disagree, particularly. if you are ignorant of the facts. I do not write for the Beaver- brook Newspapers. I write what 1 like and market it Where I can. At the moment the Evening Standard happens to be the most convenient outlet for most of mY wares; but it is in the highest degree disingenuous of Mr. Robinson, who seems to be a close student journalistic activities, to withhold from the readers of the Spectator the fact (which must surely be within his knowledge and recollection) that at Hove on November 19, 1952, I. made a very severe criticism of Lord Beaverbrook and his newspapers. -111,,, is speech was printed almost verbatim in the Daily Express, It was virtually suppressed by all other English newspapers. But all this is neither here nor there. If Mr. Robin-. t;ort wishes to attack Lord Beaverbrook or Lord Rothermere or Mr. Cecil Harmsworth King or Lord kemsley or any other newspaper proprietor, why does he not do so? And what right has he (Mr. Robinson) to goad me into attacking them? Surely I must be allowed to criticise the press in my own way and according to my own timetable? If Mr. Robinson Wishes to attack the Beaverbrook press or any other Paper why doesn't he get cracking? I am not a paid his and Mr. Robinson must not expect me to be los stalking-horse for free.—Yours faithfully,
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