7 DECEMBER 1945, Page 4

Lord Stansgate is acting wisely in ordering an immediate enquiry

into the indefensible attempt of some local Air Force commander to get possession of the original of a letter written by an aircraftsman to The Grantham Journal. In view of the enquiry, judgement on what looks on the face of it in outrageously high-handed business must be suspended. The Editor, of course, refused to consider surrendering the letter, till the writer himself, under whatever pres- sure, begged for its return. There are unsatisfactory features about the whole affair. The letter itself, devoted to criticisms of a Re- membrance Day church parade, seems to have been perfectly reasonable.

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