"Attlee and Bevan"
SIR,—Your correspondent M. M. Gardiner has every right to express her personal views on. Mervyn Stockwood's political activities,.but to describe him as a " lick-spittle parson" is to debase the standard of courtesy customary. in your correspondence column—and, what is even more important, to distort fact to absurdity.
Anyone who lived in Bristol during the Blitz knows not only the heroic work done every raid-night by Mr. Stockwood, but of the esteem short only of idolatry in which he was held by the " common people " in air-raid shelters. The thousands of Bristolians who still remember that work will deeply resent Mrs. Gardiner's grotesque discourtesy. It cannot soil the object of her abuse—but it does leave a nasty stain on Mrs. Gardiner.—Yours faithfully,
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