5 JULY 1935, Page 22

PEACE LITERATURE AND THE POLICE

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is this a Fascist country ? Last Saturday at the Air Pageant, the police hustled me away . from the public road where I was distributing Peace literature for the Society of Friends ; and I was detained until I handed over all my leaflets. A girl also had her books snatched out of her hands by a policeman and her name taken. The police claimed that they were under orders to stop our work and behaved offensively without provocation.—I am, Sir, yours faithfully,