3 JUNE 1960, Page 13

EISTEDDFROTH

SIR.—One's first impulse after reading your cor- respondent James Tucker in the current Spectator (May 27) is to wipe one's feet and move on. However, some protest must be made—not in the form of argument, because Tucker was not making the case against Eisteddfod Council policy, but simply perpetrating a vicious, hysterical slander against Wales and the Welsh. I protest by asking by what principle of editorial policy or lack of it, writers of intelligence, integrity, and reputation are employed by the Spectator to report on the small nations of Africa, while the affairs of Wales arc entrusted to a Grub Street nobody?—Yours faith fully,

BRIAN WAY Department of Extra-Mural Studies.

University College of Swansea