"COOKIES"
SIR,—" Janus" has rendered a service fully in accordance with the traditions of The Spectator in expressing concern about the treatment of recent air-war events by the B.B.C. and some evening papers, and especially in his protest against remarks said to have been made by Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Modern mechanistic warfare does not leave much room for chivalry, and there is nothing in the conduct of the enemy to inspire it, but that does not palliate departure on our part from the ordinary decencies of civilisation—noblesse oblige. There was a time when war was described as " the sport of kings." Let us, however, not countenance language that may suggest it has become the sport of democracy.—Yours faithfully, CHARLTON WILKINSON. Cleeve View, Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham.
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