7 JUNE 1963, Page 12

JEFFREY SIMMONS W. H. /1 (len & Corn pony, 43

Essex Street, Strand, WC2 SIR, —I have been working and travelling in the United States since May 4, and a copy of your May 17 issue has only just reached me. I would be grateful if you would inform your readers that I have every intention of replying to Mr. Randolph Churchill's attack on me and on my book, My Darling Clementine, when I return to London mid-June. want to quote a number of reference documents and cannot of course do so until I return. Meanwhile I felt I should explain that my silence is solely due to my absence.

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