2 MARCH 1951, Page 18

Not Ministers

SIR,—By one of those aberrations which almost pass human understand- ins I appear, in reviewing Mr. H. G. Nicholas's book on the General Election of 1945, to have referred to Mr. D. L. Lipson and Mr. W. J. Brown as members " of the 1945 Government," and the solecism success- fully evaded four pairs of professionally scrutinising eyes. For "Govern- ment" read "Parliament." Mr. Nicholas's work, incidentally, was carried out under the auspices of Nuffield College.—Yours, &c., H. W. H.