6 APRIL 1962, Page 15

THE NEW MEN

SIR,—What an extraordinary assumption by Mr. Farleigh, one of your correspondents last week. Who ever thought that the Spectator was anything but a Conservative journal—though naturally enough it has not been, and I hope that it will not become, hogtied to every single government policy of the day.

The Spectator renders an invaluable service to the Conservative Party by the very independence and radical good sense of its outlook. Long may it remain so. By the way, who says that all Tories are against the Wolfenden Report, or Lady Chatterley's Lover? And who first sensed the Wind of Change sweeping through Africa? It wasn't Mr. Gaitskell. Nor was it Mr. Grimond.