22 FEBRUARY 1957, Page 27

SIR,—It is a pity that the continued existence of Wales,

her geography', her language and her per- sonal names are so painful to your Westminster Com- mentator as to cause him to express the hope that, when a Cabinet Minister uses words which mean no more than that the Minister for Welsh Affairs is concerned with Welsh affairs, he was intending to deceive his audience—talking, in fact, 'with his tongue in his cheek.' Pain is so •apt to demoralise its victim. Incidentally, his dislike of mixed meta- phors prompts me to wonder since when shutters have been preferred to curtains to end a farce.

I apologise to him beforehand for having a name which must cause him further pangs.—Yours faith- fully,