LETTERS A beautiful life
Sir: For a short time in 1932 I was Assistant Editor of your paper. At one point I was asked to investigate drunkenness at Eton (my old school), but failed to perform the task adequately and retired, as a politics tutor, to Oxford University. For 60 years I have enjoyed the paper, whose entertain- ment value is being well maintained by the present Young Turks, who excel in outrage.
In all those years, I have not read an arti- cle so contemptible as yours about Charles Williams CA tarnished golden boy', 14 December). There is a calculated vicious- ness about it which makes me wonder about the author's mental balance. 1 have recently completed a book on mental offenders, and would gladly put to the author of the article the eternal unanswer- able question: 'What is wrong with you?' I have known Charles extremely well since he was a boy at the Dragon School, and have admired his career ever since. He has been, whatever your badly informed correspondent may say, a life-long socialist. He has maintained his political principle in the City, and as a former chairman of a bank, I know how difficult that has been. When you say that he has earned the hatred of both bankers and socialists, you are saying something that five minutes' enquiry in the House of Lords would demonstrate to you is ludicrously untrue.
His family and religious life I can only describe as beautiful. I am infinitely sad that your correspondent wholly failed to appreciate someone so worthy of admira- tion.
Longford
House of Lords London SW1
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