THE " SPECTATOR " AND THE "NATION." [To THE EDITOR
OF TIIE SPECUTOr.."1 SIR,—On p. 451 of the Spectator last week, re the banning of the Nation, I read the following :—
"In Mr. Massingliam's acrid and despairing utterances the animus is against a vigorous prosecution of the war and an ignominious pence. . . . The dreary dripping of his distressful declamation is always set" to the tune : We can't win; we must be beaten. Let us own up as soon as we can and save a little some- thing from the wreck.'"
Admiring as I -do your wise and patriotic handling of the Drink question, I am astounded at these statements. They are grotesquely untrue. I challenge you to produce in your columns any justifica- tion for so base a slander upon your contemporary.—I am, Sir, &c., J. A. WILSON (Rev., M.A.). 12 Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park, W.
[We have read the war articles in the Nation -with only an occasional respite ever since the war began, and we repeat that the impression produced on our minds is that described. That is all the justification which it is necessary for us to give, or that we shall give. If a different impression was created upon the mind of Mr. Wilson, we can only express our profound amazement—ED. Spectator.]
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