Editors
Sir: Congratulations on your celebrations. The Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford, does scant justice in his history of thd paper to that former Southampton Scholar of Queen's College, Walter Taplin. If he was briefly in your chair, that is because the chair was shot from under him by a change of owners, as has happened too often to too many editors. That he gave good service to the paper in ideas and the recruitment of writers has to be borne out by Brian Inglis, lain Hamilton –and Charles • Seaton.
Donald Tyerman 41 Buckingham Mansions, London NW6 politics to an editorial chair'. Was Dick Crossman not a major figure? Was the Labour Cabinet not politics? Or was it that Blake does not consider the New Statesman editorship an 'editorial chair'? Robert M. Worcester The Reform Club, London SW1
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