7 OCTOBER 1938, Page 20

VARIED OPINIONS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—We do not all applaud Mr. Chamberlain. He has released us temporarily from a fear we could have faced courageously, and given us instead the burden of a guilt too heavy to bear. Even if only a small section of your readers reacts like this, will you not record it as a fact that some people in England today are most bitterly ashamed ?—Yours, &c.,

VALENTINE ACICLAND, SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER.

Frome Vauchurch, Maiden Newton, Dorset.