" LEFT-CENTRE "
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In ordinary circumstances, the continuous move of The Spectator (at a pace which is' rapidly being accelerated) towards the Left, would be a domestic event. Its readers, who can always stop buying it, ' would have no right to
complain. •
But (honestly, I am asking' for information) are-the circum- stances ordinary ? I have a recollection • -(possibly quite erroneous) that St. .Loe Strachey left some trust .fund, in his will, to ensure that the paper shoirld be continued as .an organ of that " Centre " party, as he called it, to which he himself always belonged. Of course, if am wrong,. my letter is Pointless. ' But otherwise it is difficult tir.nnder- stand how those responsible for the present policy of The Spectator can honourably take the. line they .do. Strachey must be turning in his grave.!—Yours truly, [Mr. St. Loe Strachey left no trust of any kind in regard to The Spectator. Subsequently to his death legal steps were taken to preserve-the complete inifependenee Of the-paper and eliminate questions of personal or commercial profit: Mr. Strachey hinriseif never belonged to any Centre -party. He described the position of The Spectator as Left-Centre, and Left-Centre it remains. While reserving its full independence and right of criticism The'Spectator his given general support to Mr. Italdwin's Government, notably, for example, in the Government's rearing' policy, its policy of non-inter- . vention in Spdin, and more recently in Its decision to take firm measures to restore order in Palestine.—En. The Spectator.]
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