Sia,—As an elderly delegate at the Torquay Liberal Assembly, I
found Taper's amusing report just,•:but sometimes only just. I am glad he liked Mr.
• Grimond's speech, He must have had a front seat; but I was sitting at the back and, although not hard of hearing, was only_ able to catch about half of what he said. He has, perhaps unconsciously, de- veloped the Anthony Eden vocal technique, but without having mastered the microphone. As a result, he is apt to drop his voice to the point of inaudibility, I thought his tasteless attack on the House of Lords a needless display of modified 'Limehousjng.' Shades of Lloyd George whose peace- time Coalition resulted in the betrayal of the Liberal Party to make room for his friends the Tories!
As a practising barrister, Sir Arthur Comyns Carr, QC; must surely have forgotten the occasions when Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief. Justice, bored to tears with counsel's prolixity, would rebuke hint with, 'Cut it short; Mr. Jones, why must you go on wasting the time, of the court?' For the President. qua Assembly Chairman, permitted the flow of verbal haemorrhage to continue unchecked.
I give the Liberal Party thirty or forty MPs after the next General Election, unless, of course, the Tories continue to steal their fire and so live up to their appropriate sobriquet, the word 'Tory' being derived from a Gaelic word meaning 'robber.'—Yours The Little House, 9 Church Lane, Kings Langley, Herts
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