PATRON OR DICTATOR?
SIR,—Mr. John Tusa is entitled to his opinions : I am entitled to expect that he should get his elemen- tary facts right. The group of Trustees who stayed on and did not resign in 1958 (of which I was one) con- stituted a majority of the Trust, not a minority, as he thinks. This fact is basic to our case. The Company did not 'walk out': deprived. of their subsidy, the Trust were unable to offer them employment.
My 'interest' in the matter, like that of my col- leagues, is that of a voluntary Trustee of an old and honourable Company that has for eighty-five years presented the great operas in the provincial cities and towns of Britain. We believe that its disappear- ance is a cultural loss and we are doing our best to remedy it.
Perhaps Mr. Tusa will explain how our con- sistent demand, since 1958, for an impartial inquiry came to he regarded as 'evasive'?—Yours faithfully, CHARLES WILSON Carl Rosa Trust, 10 Gloucester Place, WI
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