5 FEBRUARY 1960, Page 17

L OSS OF FACE

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lt,---Your comment on 'Loss of Face' (January 29) Is_ critical of the Admiralty for not making its new tirst Lord better known, but seems also to disparage fiord Carrington for not being better known. If Lord arrington's face is unfamiliar in Britain it is because ,c has only just returned from several years in Australia, where he was one of the most successful and well-liked UK High Commissioners ever appointed, and by no means (to use your churlish epithet) 'undistinguished.' You do not presumably hold it against a man that he gets on with his jobs i

COLIN MANN