MALTA
[To the Editor of the SrEer.vron.] Sts,—It is disappointing to find the Spectator joining in the clamour about the" unwarrantable " intervention of the Vatican, for nothing is clearer, as has been grudgingly admitted in some quarters, than that there are definite grounds of complaint against Lord Strickland.
in the recent trouble between the Government and the Press over the report of the Cabinet decision on the arrest of Gandhi, the original offender dexterously transposed the rules of prosecution and defence, and put people off the scent by drawing across the track a palpable red herring in the shape of violent criticism of the Government's method of tracing the offender. So here, Lord Passfleld firmly and loudly refuses to tolerate Papal intervention, hoping, no doubt, that it has been or will be forgotten that it was Lord Strickland who led the way down that dangerous path.
It is to be hoped that when the time conies to define the position of the Church in Malta it will not he forgotten that Cyril a Papal institution must not be counted vicious if it expresses the intention to defend itself when attacked.—
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