2 JANUARY 1953, Page 18

StR, — I am neither a Roman, nor an Anglo. Catholic, but

I find Mr. Cardew-Rendle's letter terrifying. He suggests that we should greet Marshal Tito "with a hearty English huzza," on the ground that, by persecuting Christians and Christianity, he has "put out of joint the noses of autocrats both in the Kremlin and the Vatican." To some of your readers, surely, this Christmas Eve pronouncement will have brought a sense of vertigo, as at the sudden glimpse of an abyss beneath their feet. If such is the temper of Christendom today, they will reflect, may Christendom indeed be doomed, and deserve, to perish. Can anyone imagine the readers of the Spectator seventy years ago being invited to produce a hearty English huzza for the Sultan of Turkey, because the "Bulgarian atrocities" had put the noses of the Tsar and the Orthodox Patriarch out of joint ?—Yours faithfully, Adderbury, Near Banbury, Oxon. ELTON.