A BLANK CHEQUE
Sta,—Tuming to A Spectator's Notebook first, as I always do, I fmd it " plain incomprehensible," as Janus would say, to assert that the Govern- ment has asked Parliament for a blank cheque when that Government has an overwhelming majority massed behind it, can do and say what it likes in the face of a numerically helpless minority, and can fill up its own cheques ad lib. without let or hindrance. And can Mr. Churchill reasonably be twitted with asking for the same blank cheque because, in an address inexorably limited to •twenty minutes, he did not enter into the details of the policy he would pursue, given a renewal of responsibility and power? Had he, within the allotted time, entered upon that task, which he wisely did not attempt, he could not possibly have covered the ground and would no doubt have been charged with trying to expound to the country a• thing of shreds and patches.—Yours faithfully, 16, Westbourne Street, W.2. W. J. McComBE.
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