20 APRIL 1934, Page 19

INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA

[To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From your footnote to my letter I gather that The Spectator places more weight on the private opinions of coroners than upon the findings of the Ministry of Transport.

At an inquest some years ago resulting from a cyclist running doivn a pedestrian, a London coroner expressed the opinion that the accident would not have happened had the cyclist been carrying a rear light.

Mr. John Prioleau's 'epithet " fanatic " would be more appropriately• applied to those suffering from obsessions.—