17 SEPTEMBER 1943, Page 14

THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

SIR, In the News of the Week of your issue of September zoth, you comment on Mr. Curtin's suggestions for the future of . the British Commonwealth and ask what the federation (presumably an error for " federalists ") "find so seriously wrong with the Commonwealth as it is?" It is astonishing to find so glib and ingenuous a question finding a place in the editorial columns of The Spectator. I would respectfully suggest that no subject ie at present receiving more serious, more well- deserved or more public attention than this, and that such publications as Mr. Lionel Curtis's Decision and Action, to quote no other example, would repay editorial study and provide some answers to your editorial thirst for knowledge.—Your obedient servant, A. H. M. WEDDERBURN.

Parsonage Farm, East Hagbourne.