28 OCTOBER 1955, Page 15

THE OPPENHEIMER CASE

SIR,—I write to acknowledge an error in my review of Messrs. Alsop's book We Accuse, published in Spectator last week. My state- ment that Dr. Oppenheimer left America for Cambridge is incorrect. Though invited to Cambridge he in fact remained in America and was unanimously re-elected as Director of

Advanced Studies in Princeton in 1954. I should like to add that this error was not taken from Messrs. Alsop's book. It was entirely mine. I regret it and am grateful to those correspondents who have pointed it out to me,—Yours faithfully,

HUGH TREVOR-ROPER