MR. CHURCHILL AND THE PRESS COUNCIL SIR ; I willingly leave
to the judgement of your readers the opinions which Mr. Randolph S. Churchill is fully entitled to express about the Press Council and its chairman, but he ought not to mis- state the facts. In his letter printed on May 24 he says three times that the Press Council did not con- sider his complaint that W. H. Smith and Son refused to offer his book What I said about the Press' on the railway bookstalls Which' they control. In saying this so often in a short letter he may have had in mind Lewis Carroll's 'Hunting of the Snark':
• 'I have said it thrice; What 1 tell you three times is true. But this magic does not work for Mr. Churchill. It remains a fact that the Press Council did consider
his complaint and decided there was no reason to depart from the decision it took on January 26, 1954, on a similar appeal by the same complainant. The decision was that the matter was outside the terms of the Council's constitution. I refer Mr. Churchill to the Press Council report published in The Times and other papers on May 1.—Yours faithfully,
LINTON ANDREWS
Chairman of the Press Council Yorkshire Post, Leeds 1
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