Success at last
Sir: For the past six years The Spectator has declined to publish any letter, article or poem I have sent to it. Obviously this will not have been because they have been thought of too high a standard for The Spectator and if they have been thought to be of equal standard then, surely, some of them or even just one of them would have been published, so it must be that all of them have been considered of too low a standard for The Spectator: which would indicate that The Spectator has a fictitious estimate of its own standard 'height'.
But it may be that the question of standard or quality is secondary to the fact that there perhaps is an animus at The Spectator against me personally, and even that a 'veto' has been set up against anything I submit for publication — due to a pervading Roman Catholic and high- Anglican domination over The Spectator ever since its editorship immediately pre- vious to your own began. And against this, mainly Catholic, dominant faction I have probably offended simply because some of my submissions have been too freshly, effectively and correctly critical of the highly erroneous Catholic version of what Jesus said, did and meant at that Supper event which the Mass is supposed to celebrate. Hence, in the absurd Roman and Anglican fashion I am Spectator-ly ex-communicate.
Thomas W. Gadd
45 Lever Road, Rugby, Warwickshire
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