1 JANUARY 1960, Page 22

Christmas Day '

The Bishop of Exeter, James Menhinick The Monster of Piccadilly Circus

W. P. King, Mrs. Monica Pidgeon

Ireland W. Douglas Telephone-Tapping John Sparrow, D. H. Cameron Ian Henderson M. G. Farquharson James Morris J. 0. Cherrington Malcolm Elwin Nigel Seymer

Franco's Spain G H. Rolph and the BBC A Place in the Sun Pressure Group De Quincey The Ultimatum Christmas Questions Bryan Magee, Lewis G. O'Neill

Edwin Muir Memorial Fund Neil McCallum

CHRISTMAS DAY

SIR,--I should like—if it may be done without im- pertinence—to congratulate you on the article, 'All Emotion Spent,' and to thank you for it. I was surprised to find the leading article of the Spectator so sympathetic to the Christian religion, so under- standing of the unease with which many Christians regard the commercialisation and glossy veneer of the modern Christmas, and so perceptive of the relevance of the Christian faith to modern life. When I say that I was surprised to find this, I am not trying to be rude. I ant happy to find that my judgment about the fundamental principles of editorial policy was so wrong, and apologise for my stupidity.—Yours faith- fully, , .ROBERT EXON