11 JANUARY 1946, Page 16

" JANUS " AND THE ACT OF 1351

SIR,—" Janus" deserves praise for bringing to the notice of readers in the South the letter to the Manchester Guardian in which John Amery's mother pleads for the lives of those selected for trial under the Act of 1351. In the ceaseless quest for a deeper European consciousness men are bound to make grievous mistakes through weakness or blindness and through lack of wisdom or patience, but killing young men for their politics is no better than burning old ones for their religion.—Yours