Snt,—At times I have criticised you. May 1 now balance
that with a word of praise and commendation?
When Burgess and Maclean fled the country you were inclined to join that group of high- placed oddities who yapped at those alert newspapers which took the view that Mrs. Maclean was a woman worth investigating and watching.
You thought, as many others did, that she was a simple, innocent, unlucky woman who was being cruelly and unjustifiably harried.
Mrs. Maclean's subsequent actions have now convinced you that she was not such an innocent as her defenders claimed her to be. Therefore you have changed your view and admitted your misjudgement. I congratulate you, not merely on your courage in doing that but on putting so fine a stamp of sincerity and honesty on your journalism. , Now, as you must expect, the snappers at the newspapers are snapping at you. Mr. David Astor, whose blindness is apparently beyond cure, still wails pathetically that Mrs. Maclean was a poor ill-used woman. Lady Violet Bon- ham Carter, as always the last-ditch defender of a lost cause, still cannot bring herself to admit that Mrs. Maclean made a fool of her.
You will never convert them. Why bother to try? Mrs. Maclean herself sent them down for the count.—Yours faithfully,
JOHN GORDON
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