14 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 18

SIR,—I too read the Stockwood article—my reaction was not so

serious as Mr. F. H. Butler's. My mental comment, "Another lick-spittle parson—what a pity spittle does not poison spittle-lickers !" I then looked at the cover of the paper and was very surprised to find that I had not picked up the New Statesman. The Editor, Spectator, may well congratulate himself on his non-party paper—rather like the good German who lived next door to Belsen—and kept his " good " eye shut.—Yours faithfully, M. M. GARDINER. The Shieling, Monks/ranger, Farnham.