28 MAY 1937, Page 21

PHILIP SNOWDEN [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely it

was Walter Runciman and not Philip Snowden who made that statement about misappropriation of Post Office Savings Bank Funds. I remember very well Snowden's speech the night before the General Election of 3931 and have always felt it contributed very largely to the defeat of the Labour Party. But the Savings Bank statement had been *glade a day or two before that.—Yours, &c.,