21 OCTOBER 1955, Page 19

Sul,—As a subscriber to your paper, I should like to

place it on record that although I am the mildest of men, I find myself beginning to wish that Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Mr Randolph Churchill, Mr. David Astor, Mi..

Malcolm Muggeridge, Mr. John Gordon and Mr. John Connell had all gone to Russia with Mrs. Maclean, where they would presumably have been out of reach of your correspondence column.—Yours faithfully, WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME Drayton House, East Mcon. Hampshire

[This correspondence, which is now closed, is referred to by Mr. Henry Fairlie in 'Political Commentary' on page 516.—Editor. Spectator.]