28 JUNE 1969, Page 25

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Sir: In his attack on the colour supple- ments (14 June) Bill Grundy singles out an article on Ethiopia in the Sunday Times Magazine with pictures by John Bulmer and text by myself.

'How impressed can I be,' he asks, `by a leper resting her stumps in a doorway when on the next page I am being tempted to fly Lufthansa to Buenos Aires—and not, presumably, to check on the poverty there?'

The same issue of the SPECTATOR con-

tains a splendid article by Auberon Waugh on the sufferings of Biafra, backed by the one full-page advertisement in the issue: 'Let us take you out of all this ... Pan Am makes the going great.'

Are you impressed, Bill Grundy?

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