THE PRESS AND A GRIEVANCE
SIR,—In your issue of January 7th " Janus" falls below his normal standard of criticism. He accuses the Press of advertising the grievance of a man who started the Brains Trust, and has resigned from the pro- duction of the programme. The public are interested not in the career of this gentleman, but in the reasons for his resignation. Is it true that for two years he has sought to have questions of importance debated, and that the governors of the B.B.C. debar all matters that are moving the public mind in regard to the reconstruction of the country?
If this is correct, popular opinion will support Mr. Thomas, and de- mand the discussion of sterner stuff than the artistic value of the Elephant House in the Zoo, or the mechanical movements of the Spider and the Fly. If the Brains Trust are to talk only of Arts and Crafts, let it assume a more modest totle, for a "great empire and little minds go ill together." Dangerous thoughts are punished in Japan and Germany, but let us think and speak in freedom.—Yours, &c.
H. S. LAWRENCE.
Boars Hill, Oxford.
rjanus " writes: The Press notices which I criticised had nothing to do with Mr. Thomas's resignation. They dealt simply with his com- plaint of not being announced on a particular night as producer of the Brains Trust. My normal standard of criticism may be low, but this criticism is not lower than usual.'
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