14 JUNE 1913, Page 14

AN ORGANIZED HYPOCRISY.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—May I suggest that, merely as a display of intellectual gymnastics, it will be very interesting in the course of the next few days to watch high-minded Liberals maintaining both (1) that Lord Murray was perfectly right to conceal the fact that, while the Liberal Government were holding an inquiry into the Marconi affair, the Liberal Party was holding Marconi shares in a certain portion of the habitable globe; and (2) that Mr. Churchill was perfectly right in blazing with indignation merely at being asked to deny that he personally had done any such thing 1)-1 am, Sir, &c.,