3 MAY 1957, Page 15

DESERT LOVE

SIR,—Your readers will be interested to know that Henri de Montherlant's Desert Love, which was the subject of a letter from me in your paper, will now be published at the end of May. Although this is four months later than originally planned, it is, of course, welcome news, and I am glad to feel that the publicity given by your paper to my letter as well as the recent debate on insidious censorship in Parliament in a Private Member's Bill, during which this case was mentioned by two speakers, has created the necessary atmosphere in which the transfer of type to another and more sympathetic (and possibly more courageous) printer was made possible.

May I therefore thank you for publishing my letter, and also thank through your columns the correspondents who have written to me sym- pathetically over this matter.—Yours faithfully,