[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR. —Your attitude to the
result of the General Election makes some, at any rate, of your readers rub their eyes in astonishment. You say in your News of the Week columns, under the paragraph headed " The Avalanche," that the Charge of " running away " was carried to quite unfair lengths I
It would be interesting to know where, how, and in what way ? To those of your readers who look for consistency from your paper, it is difficult to understand how you can adopt this attitude, in view of the fire and thunder contained in the latter part of your article entitled " The Nation and Parties " in your issue of October 17th.
Furthermore, your remark that Mr. Henderson's absence from the House is to be regretted, &c., is hard to reconcile with the views expressed on the Labour leadership in your article of October 17th already referred to. The Labour leaders, including Mr. Henderson, have all been soundly defeated, because they have shown themselves " unfit to • govern," and to suggest that it would be in the interests of the country for them to be allowed to return to the House of Commons seems to be more worthy of the Daily Herald than the Spectator !
The fact is, I am afraid, that the Spectator has become curiously weak and sentimental, and no sooner has it seen the Socialist Party soundly beaten and discredited than it wishes to pat all the leaders on the back and to say what
[We do not want the experience of ex-Cabinet Ministers to be lost to the country, nor that the Government should be without the criticism that all need when in power. Our correspondent may remember our article on " His Majesty's Opposition " on September 5th, and we should like to see the Opposition filling effectively the role there set out.—En, Spectator.]
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