SIR,—Mrs. Mitchison does me the honour of asking my guidance
on a point of etiquette. Must she, A s a County Councillor, eat and drink with people she finds obnoxious? The hard answer is: yes.
I am not a member of the Conservative Party, but my wife is. Mr. Bevan, I understand, refers to her as vermin. I should not, therefore, sit down to luncheon with him. But this is a privilege I have earned by my abstention from public affairs. Mrs. Mitchison, 1 fear, has forfeited her private station by taking part in popular government. She must recon- cile herself to social relations with the most awful people.
May I take this opportunity of saying how greatly amused I have been by your correspondents' ,n- ffignation at my statement that no moral issue was involved in the .recent election? I conjecture that know East and Central Africa rather better than most of them. I think more violent deaths of Africans would occur under Labour rule than under the Conservatives. But I do not consider myself qualified to advise any Colonial Secretary on his difficult duties.—Yours faithfully,
10 Buckingham Street, WC2
EVELYN WAL'(;I
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