2 MAY 1941, Page 15

MR. STUART HODGSON ON LORD HALIFAX

SIR,—Controversy about pre-war policy is better postponed in these times unless it can be conducted amicably. But I will ask you just to let me express my opinion that Mr. Stuart Hoigson's Life of Lord Halifax does not deserve the censure which Mr. Ensor passes on it in his review in last week's Spectator. Necessarily it deals with the policy with which Lord Halifax is associated, but it does so in a studiously moderate and fair-minded manner and is the work of a highly competent and experienced journalist who is as much entitled to his opinion as Mr. Ensor is to his.—I am, yours, J. A. SPENDER.