A VENIAL LITTLE PRANK
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—The ponderously heavy tone adopted in the paragraph on " Vandalism and the Army " in your last issue must be a delight to those of your readers who are honest enough to admit that in similar circumstances they themselves might have been the perpetrators- of the Stonehenge outrage, which, in contradiction to your correspondent, I venture to suggest, was performed with a dexterity that would do little credit to the sign-writing followers of Sir Oswald Mosley. Surely, if such a reverent object as the Albert Memorial were so assaulted, would not the crime be hailed as an act of Providence ? And yet the principle remains the same.
Did your correspondent expostulate in similarly generous terms as to the possibility of the collapse of the Imperial banking system when, several years ago, a member of its London fraternity caused the tripping posture of Eros to adopt an almost running attitude ?
I am not attempting to exonerate the members of this very happy evening, although it was obviously unfortunate that Stonehenge lay so near to Amesbury, but rather to suggest a more reasoned attitude in your correspondent's future remarks on the occasional and natural " letting off of human steam."—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
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