Mr David Ennals
Sir: It does not commend the Spectator to those who have for many years respected its contributions to read Patrick Cosgrave's 'Suffering and little children' article in your edition of 19 February.
Mr David Ennals is well known to thousand of people as one who has devoted the greater part of his life to service for others" 'particularly children—and it is a typical example of the uninformed journalism to which we are today subjected that his distinguished career, not only in the political field, but in that of leadership in the voluntary sector, should have bypassed Mr Cosgrave. Even were the facts of the case not exaggerated in order to highlight the sufferings of these most unfortunate parents and their brain-damaged children, such scurrilous personal abuse is so grossly misplaced and so patently a libellous misrepresentation of Mr Ennals's personality and character as to make more than one of Your readers feel that the opinions of your writers are worth less than the paper on which theY are written.
Joyce Pearce Chairman, The Ockenden Venture, Ockenden, Guildford Road, Woking, Surrey
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