13 NOVEMBER 1936, Page 19

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Referring to the most

interesting letters published in your issue of November 0th, on Communism and Socialism, and the difference between them. may I add a graphic description which I heard years ago front Lenin in Zurich ? He said: " Socialism is like soda water poured into the whisky ; it very soon fizzles out, leaving undiluted Communism.—I ant, your obediently,