Collusion
Sir: The reference in 'Spectator's Notebook' (12 May) to Mr Crossman's dissertation on the righteous necessity to tell lies in politics will, I trust, be echoed in the House if and when the great debate on the Suez Lie takes place. Perhaps you would allow the one who first raised this matter in your columns (in a letter to the SPECTATOR in February 1966) to add a short footnote in order to point out that revelation at that time produced a deafening silence from the then Minister of Housing.
And just in case any readers imagine that this was because ministers do not feel free to indulge in letters to the press, may I remind them that it was Mr Crossman and not I who first entered your correspondence columns. So that the only inference to be drawn from his silence was that he was caught out and preferred to let the smoke die away.
How unsporting of your diarist to disinter this business!
L. E. Weidherg 14 Templewood Avenue, Hampstead. London NW3
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