24 OCTOBER 1958, Page 21

SIR,—Your correspondent Taper has done a service in describing in

some detail the incidents at Black- pool. To read it in conjunction with the letter of Lord Hailsham in The Times, with its tone of a blustering schoolmaster trying to defend the beating- up of a village idiot by the school prefects, is to be confirmed in that jaundiced view of present-day politics and politicians which so many of us share with Taper.

Faute de ',deux, I vote Conservative, but my allegiance is frail, and that sort of behaviour is liable, illogically but none the less truly, to blow it all away.—Yours faithfully, 55 "Addison Road, W14

JOHN HARVEY