17 OCTOBER 1925, Page 17

MR. BALDWIN AND HIS CRITICS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I read—as I am sure the public will generally—your leading article relating to the abuse of the Government and Colonial Secretary by the Daily Mail and Daily Eapress. The former paper had a most insulting article last week headed " Who is Mr. Amery ? " Had one had time, one would have liked to reply : " He is the accredited Colonial Secretary doing a difficult job—apparently pretty well. Why don't you help him instead of playing into the hands of those with whom he is dealing, as against your own country ?"

I am constrained to thank you for the clear and fair expression of opinion in the Spectator, which well put into words what many would have wished to have said.—I am,