9 FEBRUARY 1974, Page 5

Stingless Stan

Sir: A friend of ,mine, recently mentioned unfavourably in your Will Waspe column, accuses me of being the author, and cannot be persuaded otherwise. There is an honourable tradition in British journalism of printing libels anonymously, and I have no objection to it.

But I am not, of course, Will Waspe, in whole or in part. I would be glad if you confirmed this fact in your paper before word gets around that I am he, and have consequently to suffer the assaults of other of his victims.

Stan Gebler Davies Burwash, Sussex