LLOYD GEORGE
SIR,—If Lord Boothby really thinks that the Chanak crisis was something quite apart from the fall of the Lloyd George coalition, he must be unique. He can't be serious. Moreover, Lord Beaverbrook was around, doing his best to frustrate the warmongering plans of those :resolute men' Lord Boothby admires so much : 'The agitator for- peace must never be at rest. So I spent my days and nights too in contact with Birkenhead, Churchill and Bonar Law. . . (Decline and Fall. p. 165)- .
Even more disquieting than Lord Boothb■'s bizarre and pompous historical assertions about the Chanak crisis, is his attitude to the writing of history. Does he seriously expect us to believe implicitly a politician's version of events which he himself helped to 'initiate? Churchill was second only to Lloyd George in launching the Chanak manceuvre. DAVID REES London, 14/3
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