5 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 15

Herr Krupp

Snt,—Your sober comments on the case of Herr Krupp are welcome. What has been depressing in many of the letters in the daily Press has been not so much their conclusions (which may well be arguable) but the apparent assumption that they need lip argument to establish them. One would have hoped that people brought up in the liberal tradition would at least have granted, even 'where their emotions were deeply engaged, that the presumption is always against privilegia. But apparently that is no longer the case.—Yours faithfully, J. C. MAXWELL. King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne.