7 MAY 1937, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to your

correspondent's letter in your issue of April 23rd, I would point out that Sir Archibald Sinclair's criticism of the brochure referred to was fully replied to by the Master of Polwarth, Chairman of the Council of the Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland, in his letter published in The Scotsman of April Isth.

Further, I did not insinuate, but indicated most clearly, in my letter published in your issue of April 9th, that the feeling of Scotland on the question did not agree with that of the forty-seven Scottish Members referred to. The fact that these forty-seven Members voted as they did bears out Mr. Baldwin's contention that in these days Members of Parliament have no time to think.—I am, yours faithfully,