L S. AMERY
SIR,—May I express my wholehearted agree- ment with your very fine tribute to the late Leopold Amery. Although I only met him on one or two occasions, his influence on my Political thinking has been profound, and will, I am sure, be lasting.
When, some twelve years ago, I was asked to defend the Conservative cause in the Cam- bridge Union, it was to a recently published article by Mr. Amery that I turned for edifica- tion and encouragement, and in later years I have constantly found in his writings both an antidote to cynicism and a sure vindication of my own political faith.
Above everything else, as you so rightly say. his politics were pure. He had a deep in- sight into the causes and conditions of Britain's greatness, and his whole political career was an untiring attempt, neither twisted by ambition nor deterred by failure, to make of imperialism a noble reality.
A few weeks ago I closed the latest volume of his autobiography with the reflection_ shared, I am sure, by many of my contem- poraries—that, while the House of Commons Was enriched by his presence, our political life as a whole will be immeasurably the better for his example.—yours faithfully,
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