SIR,—I yield to nobody in my admiration lc Mr. Fairlie,
but it is only fair to alio& brilliant writer to state that it was the la' Ford Madox Ford (formerly Hueffer) who it vented 'the. Establishment' in the secular sera I that now attaches to it. Domilas Goldrin makes this clear in his book of reminiscence The Nineteen-Twenties, published ten yea' ago.
One other point in connection with a corn spondence that has evoked so much first-chu journalism: Colm Brogan refers to the cleve and shabby manoeuvre whereby F. E. Smit and Edward Carson disqualified themselvr from any participation in the House of Con mons debate on the Marconi Scandal. But omitted the important fact that the author C that manoeuvre was Winston Churchill:- Yours faithfully, :1' Lc• rs
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