Sia,—I am positively disgusted and I know that many people
are also in reading the comments of Janus in your issue of January' 30th. How easy it is to go with unintelligent clamour and cry, " Release Barabbas," as of old. While he pretends to support the Home Secre- tary in his action, he condemns him utterly from start to finish. The whole campaign engineered by the Communists and the Daily Worker has been calculated to undermine authority, and the rule of law under which we live. Not long ago the Socialists in the House of Commons abolished the death penalty. Thank heaVens it has been restored. Never before has armed gangsterism been so prevalent in England as it is today: and never before was the need to support the forces of authority greater.
Janus has done a great disservice to the nation, and the Spectator has lowered its standard in the eyes of every law-abiding and self-respect- ing citizen, in giving publication to these most irresponsible sentiments. As the know, the duty of the Jury is only to say "Guilty " or " Not guilty "—they have nothing whatever to do with the sentence. Bentley was quite sane. At his age I was an officer in H.M.'s Forces overseas,
no longer a boy !—Yours faithfully, E. H. Oak House. Baughurst, Basingstoke.
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