" ROME BEWILDERED "
SIR,—Reflecting upon the present political climate of his own country, I feel sure that Mr. Jori will understand why I should decline to make public the identity (even if it had not been given me in confidence) of the Liberal professor to whom I referred in Rome Bewildered. Never- theless, I can assure Mr. Jori that I thoroughly investigated his story before leaving Rome.
Had your contributor read my article more carefully he might have noticed that I made no mention whatsoever of either Right- or Left-wing technical Press. Articles explaining to the layman engineering technique and developments are not confined to technical publications in Italy or, so far as I know, any other country. Neither did I say that this pro- fessor always voted against his own party, but that he did " if it seemed to him right to do so." Your contributor, perhaps, does not know of the current use of the term " party line," which has come to mean, rigid adherence to directives from the executive, resulting in the " representative " coming to represent no one and nothing but the executive. As for " when and how he happened to become a Liberal," I don't know and can't see that it matters, except in so far as it was long before it became (moderately) safe to be one.—Yours faithfully,
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