LIGHT ON THE DUKE S1R,-If you will write to Dr.
Luis Palos (barrister at law) at Bolt& Postale 818, Madrid, you will learn all you may wish to know concerning Prince Eugene Lascaris, who freely uses his inherited title of Duke of Athens and Lepanto, and who lives exiled in that city with his distinguished family. You may desire to communicate direct with the Duke at Apartado 5, Arlaban, Madrid, and I am certain that he will be pleased to respond to any enquiry as to his status there. You will find also that our world- wide organisation is closely linked with the Pacific International University at West 23rd Street, Los Angeles, where the President, Dr. Lowell Coate, represents us. We are also in association with the Societe Culturelle at Geneva, whose representative here is Dr. R. H. Bullock, who has his office in Oxford. We can supply the names of other similar and well-known organisations here in Europe and in U.S.A. whose fraternal academic aims are identical with our own. We are incorporated within the Order of Constantine the Great, whose Grand Sovereign Master is our President, the Duke of Athens.
Of myself, may I add the following items:—You will find I am named as an economist in the Imperial Calendar. In the years 1918, 1919 and 1920 I was in charge as senior officer of the School for Officers and Ex-Service Men, held at the London School of Economics. It has never been my privilege to be ordained. My activities as lecturer and author have been for thirty years in other directions, and I have lived in America and lectured widely there. These facts I hope will end once and for all the campaign initiated in your pages. I wrote to you in June, 1947, and you replied to the information then given ; and, as you will recall, I sent a copy of my letter to you to our mutual friend, a member of the Senate of the University of London, and he has it on file. The Philosophical Society does not list me among its Fellows. Our "So- called parchments" have been accepted by some of the foremost scholars in Europe as marks of honour. Their names can be supplied.
The facts cited above will enlighten your readers and so end the egregious references to our world-wide work at our various centres. My colleagues and I freely give our services to the organisation. Our con- fraternity is well known all over the world, and nothing will ever hold up its work in the world of culture and learning. It will ever continue in its aims. Should you so desire, we will furnish the names of our legal advisers both here and overseas. We shall therefore be glad if you will close the matter, as we never publicise our activities.—Yours faith-
{There is a good deal to be said for publicity in this case, none the less.—En., Spectator.]
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