ESCAPE, PRAYER, AND THE B.B.C.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Does Major Yeats-Brown improve his case by the parallel he suggests ? In common with all other subscribers. he switches on his B.B.C. set and receives the result common to all ; a just result, for all equally merit the programme to which the licence entitles them.
Under the Major's conception of God's wireless, lie and a fellow-soldier may switch on, he receiving the heavenly music of release and happiness--the other a high explosive crash followed by the tortures of hell. Accidents may be forgiven to the B.B.C., and hard cases under human law—for man is finite—whereas Major Yeats-Brown ascribes infinity to God.
The Major gives acknowledgement in the Spectator of the special, divine interposition which freed him from his prison ; what should be the reaction of the other soldier's mind, dwelling in the perhaps blinded tenement of a shatto c 1 body ?
May one not fairly protest against Major Yeats-Brown's conception of divine selective favour am, Sir, &c..
Studland, Wilkie Road, Birchingtwo. F. G. KEEN.
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