26 JUNE 1926, Page 16

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS MR. LLOYD GEORGE Mn. T. H. EMANUEL

(1 Sea View, St. Mawes, Cornwall) writes :—" I have before me the Spectator of June 12, sent to me by a real friend of that journal, and as I rambled through the ' News of the Week,' I discovered immediately that you were no friend of Mr. Lloyd George, else you would not misquote unkindly the word ' stupidity ' instead of ' sim- plicity.' How came you to insert the one instead of the other ? "

[We much regret that we misquoted Mr. Lloyd George's words that Mr. Bonar Law was " honest to the point of simplicity." In using " stupidity " for " simplicity " we certainly over-emphasized Mr. Lloyd George's meaning. Our point, however, was that Mr. Lloyd George spoke with some lightness of honesty.—En. Spectator.]