5 JANUARY 1968, Page 22

In the name of God, go !

Sir: What authority does the SPECTATOR (22 Decem- ber) have to tell the Prime Minister to go in the name of God?

Believers will think this is taking the name of God in vain—so will non-believers.

M. Witty Plaza Medinaccli 5, Barcelona (2) The words of our heading were those applied by

L. S. Amery to Chamberlain in the House of Com- mons on 7 May 1940—which were in turn based on Cromwell's dismissal of the Long Parliament in 1654.—Editor, SPECTATOR.