[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your issue of
the 21st inst., in criticising the state- ments made in this Report in reference to the Spectator, you say, " The drafters of the Report are willing enough to wound but abjectly afraid to strike." Last autumn I was for some weeks in New York, and my source of information as to what was transpiring in England consisted largely of the weekly issue of the Spectator. Before leaving England I think I had read one of Mr. Chesterton's articles, but I had not read any articles in the National Review or the Outlook. I may have been wrong, but as 1 read the Spectator week by week far away from England I felt very strongly that it was unworthy of the Spectator to give world-wide publicity to utterly unfounded insinuations against the honour of Ministers whether the Spectator made them itself or not, and I could not help formulating in my mind against the Spectator a precisely similar charge to that which you now make against the drafters of the Report.—I am, Sir, Sze., [Our correspondent asserts, but gives no proof of his assertions. We showed by chapter and verse how baseless were the insinuations of the Majority Report.—ED. Spectator.]
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