6 APRIL 1996, Page 25

Hard-faced men

Sir: Lord Alport quotes Stanley Baldwin as having described the Conservatives as 'the probably get a choice of standpipes.' party of "hard-faced men" . . . in pre-war days' (`Forming One Nation', 30 March). But Baldwin was actually referring to the Parliament elected in 1918, which, he said, contained 'hard-faced men who look as though they have done well out of the war'.

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