6 APRIL 1951, Page 22

Dogma and Fact

SIR,—In approving the comments of the Primates on divorce you summarise their opinions and add: "That is not church dogma ; it is bard and incontrovertible fact." To the Christian the former is the latter. To the non-Christian the former is not necessarily the latter. But surely to no one (certainly not the Editor of the Spectator) ought the latter to [What was meant—as the context surely showed—was "That is not only Church dogma."—ED., Spectator.]