X MARKS THE SPOT
S1R,—Surely Mr. Knox Cunningham is even less com- petent to speak for my leader than I am.
It seems somewhat disingenuous of him to try to give the impression that I am repudiating and at the same time (paradoxically) purporting to speak for my leader by quoting Mr. Grimond completely out of context.
It was never denied that there appeared a distinct possibility of the Liberals holding the balance in the House of Commons as a result of the general election, though it was made clear that this was not the 'real aspiration.' In his final television broadcast on October 3 Mr. Grimond said,. 'We've made it clear that if there is a narrow result, if there is a narrow result I repeat, in this election, we will take steps to see that government is not made impos- sible. . . It seems that we had not made this clear to Mr. Simon and Mr. Knox Cunningham. Our real aspiration was, and still is, to make our influence felt not as a minority, but as a representative majority. —Yours faithfully,
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