SIR,—Mr. Charles Pannell, in his article 'Outside the Walls' in
your issue of December 15 (p. 891), writes that Mr. R. A. Butler, speaking in the House of Commons on June 15 this year, . . . acknowledged in the same speech that if "the facts as they are now known had been known in 1950, the jury wotild not have found that the case against Evans had been proved beyond all reasonable doubt"' Mr. Butler did not do that. He said he acknow- ledged that it might be (not was) the case that if 'the facts . . . [etc.]'; his actual words being reported in Hansard (HC, 642(127)/709) for 15 June, 1961, as 'It may be said, and it may be true—and 1 will acknowledge this from this Box—that if the facts as they are now known had been known in 1950 . . .
[etc.]' G. CORDEROY Oxford and Cambridge University Club, Pall Mall, SW I
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