3 OCTOBER 1958, Page 21

LOYALTIES LTD.

SIR,—Your correspondent sees your phrase, 'It is better to be disloyal and dishonoured than dead,' as the antithesis of 'all that Great Britain with Its Christian tradition stands for.' But actually it is an alnaost exact paraphrase of 'A living dog is better than a dead lion' from the Canonical Scriptures.— Yours faithfully, AUSTIN LEE Nettleham Vicarage, Lincoln