15 MAY 1959, Page 22

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

SIR,—Pharos mistook my reference, as well as my initials. I called the law which the Wolfenden Cote* mittee sought to reform as stupid as it is barbarous• For so it is. This does not mean that I consider the opponents of that reform as barbarous as they sr° stupid. For they are not.—Yours faithfully,