30 MAY 1958, Page 29

DIVISION BELL

&Ili—You will certainly upset one of your readers • if yoU allow Taper to potter out of his warm office and on to a wider, (albeit thermostatically heated!)

stage as suggested by Mr. Peter Rawlinson, M P. '

.Recently I dined at an. intimate restaurant within earshot of the division hell, but not, I regret to 50, on oysters and champagne and over-ripe pheasant.

In the middle of my more modest fare the division bell went and so did some of the diners.

. When they returned to the table nett to mine, their guests inquired what it . was all about. The honourahle member frit- somewhere replied that he had not the faintest notion, but had done his duty 'with the rest of the sheep.

If that is the power Of Mr. Edward Heath, then under no circumstances must Taper be allowed to replace him; the consequences upon Mr. Rawlinson and his colleagues (and for that matter upon their digestions) might be terrible.—Yours faithfully, 30 Rectory Rowl, Barnes, SW 13

COLIN MCCULLOCH