SM.—Your relentless pursuit of 'popular newspapers' sometimes makes you look
silly, and never more Comically so than in last week's issue. You say: 'The fuss over Preludin is an interesting example of the-
way the Home Office . . . can still be panicked by a newspaper stunt.'
The so-called stunt was started when Sir Laurence °mine, Chief Metropolitan magistrate, called the drug 'beastly and horrible.' He saw thedamage it did, and wanted it sold only on prescription. So did Judge Maxwell Turner, at the Old Bailey; so did Dr. John Evans, in the Lancet; so did the Phar- maceutical Society; and the same advice was given by Sir Russell Brain to the Home Secretary. And the 'Star, pressing what it thought was a Worthy campaign, published the fact that even the makers of Prcludin wanted to see its unrestricted sale
Prohibited.
We're all out of step but the Spectator.—Yours faithfully,
RALPH MCCARTHY
Editor
The Star, 12-22 Bouverie Street, EC4
[This letter is referred to on p
SPccrafor.) . 277.—Editor,
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