5 MARCH 1994, Page 27

Sir: It says much for The Spectator that the chairman

of its controlling company, Con- rad Black, while 'taking exception' to the Mount article, had not interfered with the editor's right to print one of the best arti- cles, and related correspondence, that this reader for 50 years can remember.

J. A. S. MacDonald

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