13 MAY 1966, Page 14

Sat,--Is it not a pity, when someone can write as

touchingly-and one assumes accurately-on the subject of his father as Mr Aubcron Waugh does, that at the same time he makes the article far less impressive by describing one of the most brilliant Prime Ministers of our age as 'an infinitely depressing publisher'? It is clear that Mr Waugh does not know the person to whom he refers. If he did, he would find him not only brilliant, but-like his father-