31 DECEMBER 1937, Page 19

MR. CLYNES'S MEMOIRS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

Vyvyan Adams cries out for facts, and calmly ignores them when on the matter of Capital Punishment I state the facts.

He really ought not to write that nonsense about the House of Commons passing a Resolution to enable a Home Secretary to put his own opinion in place of the Royal prerogative, and act as though the decision of Juries, Judges, and Courts were of no account.

My other points have not been disturbed by the further comments of Mr. Adams, but as he has twice referred to the matter, I may say that when I saw on the cover of Volume x that line about a Prime Minister I at once called for its deletion. —Yours faithfully,

4z St. John's Avenue, London, S.W. 15. J. R. CLYNES.