6 FEBRUARY 1948, Page 15

SIR,—Over the past eighteen months The Spectator has published comments

on the National Health Act. Always The Spectator has spoken in a lordly manner to the doctors. The doctors are to be good boys and are to sign on the dotted line, drawn up by the dark-haired Mr. Bevan. The doctors want a National Health Act but not the conditions laid down by the Minister and the obsequious Spectator. Around February 16th the result of the doctors' poll will be known. The Minister will then " tell the world " how and why he was beaten by the wicked doctors. The Spectator will whimper and change the