SPEECHES AND CLICHES
SIR,—Pharos, in his typically superior manner, has chosen to belittle and ridicule the Prime Minister's recent broadcast speech.
It would be interesting to your readers and, I am sure, helpful to the Prime Minister if Pharos would compose and you, Sir, would publish a draft of the form which he thinks such a speech should have taken.
It would also save him the expense of presenting Mr. Randolph Churchill with a copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage.—Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL IIORNBY Pusey House, Faringdon, Berks
[Pharos writes: 'I am not sure if Mr. Hornby's objection to my remarks is that the speech was not comprised of clichés, or that it was .but they are nowadays inevitable, or merely that it was but I should not have pointed them out. That clichés are not an essential ingredient of speeches has frequently been demonstrated by the Duke of Edinburgh:— Editor, Spectator.]
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