publish because he regarded the paper's leader on the subject
as closing the correspondence (what he thought he was doing publishing Mr. Eliot's letter in that case is not stated). Are not all these frenzied objections a little idiotic anyway? There is• already a fun fair in Battersea Park and, pace the culture vultures, a perfectly nice fun fair, where anyone who enjoys big dippers and dodgem cars can spend a pleasant afternoon. Are opponents of the scheme afraid that the skyscape of Bat- tersea will be ruined by a tower or that the power station will be overlooked by it. or what? I suspect that the true grounds of the row lie elsewhere and that The Times and many of its readers do not really like the idea of Londoners enjoying them- selves at all. Only it is a pity that Mr. Eliot should put himself on the side of the old codgers.
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