11 NOVEMBER 1960, Page 14

SIR,-- Might I enter a mild protest against the use,

in, last week's Spectator, of 'Democrat' for 'Democratic.' The use of 'Democrat party' was a Republican gimmick now abandoned even by Mr. Nixon.- Yours.faithfully,

Reform Club, Pall Mall, SIV 1 [Agreed: in the context 'two Democrat professors seemed to us to sound better than 'two Democratic professors,' but this is English usage, we gather; no longer American.—Editor, Spectator.]