SIR,—I have not seen the play Flags Ain't Wot They
Used T'Be, and doubtless that will be held against me. But if the situations described in the Censor's letter are accurate, as they must be since they are not contested, how can your contributor suggest that such 'harmless little jokes and gestures could be found in plenty of pubs'? What decent woman would patronise a pub where such situations were regarded as normal? Granted that the Censorship is a debatable problem, there could be no more con- vincing evidence of the need of it than your con- tributor supplies—apparently with the Spectator's approval. It may be 'modern' and 'enlightened' to outrage ordinary decencies both on the stage and in so-called literature, but that does not make it acceptable to the majority of clean-minded men and women.--Your faithfully,
A. E. MOORE
Loen House, 26 Manor Park, Hision, Cambridge
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