Lionel de Rothschild
Sir, Your delightful but no doubt hard-pressed staff inadvertently caused me to put into the mouth of Lionel de Roth- schild of all people the abominable sugges- tion that 'Britain's aim should be to give Germany the Jews', when the typescript of my review of Sir John Colville's Diaries (Books, 12 October) clearly showed 'to the Jews'.
As for The Other Club (founded by Churchill and F.E. Smith in 1911, when they were both blackballed from The Club), by being shorn of its capital 0 it rendered yet another of my sentences nonsensical. Nor was it necessarily fool- hardy of Harold Macmillan, even at such a late hour, to write to Churchill suggesting he should take Eden's place as Heir Appa- rent, but such a letter was, as I understood and wrote, rather foolhardily dictated to and typewritten by a secretary. Alastair Forbes
Hotel-Restaurant Arc-en-Ciel, Gstaad, Switzerland
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