16 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 8

MR. PHILIP TOYNBEE'S suggestion (contained in a letter to the

Spectator this week) for a pilgrimage of British youth to Buda- pest as a protest against recent events in Hungary and a penance for Anglo-French intervention in Suez has had me vainly searching encyclopmdias for some details of the Children's Crusade. All I could find was what everyone knows: that large bands of children set out for the Holy Land with the object of converting the heathen, but that most of them ended up being sold into slavery by the thrifty Venetians.

PHAROS