Letters to the Editor
Keeping up with the Rices Paul Van,ghatt, Hugh Davidson, Bernard Shattock, W. S. C. Copeman Passchendaele Lord Haig Knocking the Palace Lord Altrincham Satellite Diplomacy Hugh Fraser, MP Greece and Syria M. Cosmetatos Divorce and After G. W. R. Thomson, Rev. Victor H. Beaton In Search of a Government P. A. Lusher On the Spot J. D, R. Cuthbert Mansfield Park Margaret W. Oran: KEEPING UP WITH THE RICES
SIR,—I hope, Mr. William Donaldson's catalogue of causes for anger will impress Mr. Christopher Hollis. But 1 am afraid that his second paragraph will suc- ceed in muddling Mr. Hollis more than he seems to have intended. I am puzzled to know how he can associate himself 'wholeheartedly . . . with every _attitude expressed in Declaration (except those of Mr. Wilson and his chums).' If he does this he must be turning himself inside out trying to agree simul- taneously with, for instance, the violently opposing views of Lindsay Anderson and John Wain. Much as 1 hope that Mr. Hollis, and others like him, will be persuaded to read Declaration, it seems to me that this affirmation of multiple allegiance will produce yet another bar to an unprejudiced approach to what is in the book. No doubt it will reinforce the view that the discontents of many younger writers are without direction or logic, and that they are only 'harmlessly' letting off steam,' etc.—Yours faithfully,
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