4 OCTOBER 1957, Page 21

SIR,—May I, as the son referred to by Mr. Price,

be allowed to give the family point of view?

GLS was a gentle, lovable man, gay and com- panionable (Reginald Pound has referred to this in two of his books), but he had a tremendous sense of propriety. He would certainly not have relished the invention of a debauched past. However, I accept Mr. Price's personal apology, understanding that he used the word 'roué' as a club bar term of endear- ment. There is a word used among sailors in the same way, but one would not expect to find it in a serious history of the Royal Navy to describe a distinguished captain.—Yours faithfully,