Protests lodged
Sir: With his lips firmly pressed to the hem of Mr Wilson's gar- ment—or to somewhere close to it—it is hardly surprising that your correspondent, Mr T. C. Skeffing- ton-Lodge, is in no position to heed Mr Heath's exhortation to us to stand on our own feet.
Those of us who have always adopted a more dignified posture can only applaud Mr Heath's plea for self-help and independence. Margaret Train Bramblers, Whitegate Gardens, Harrow, Middlesex Sir: Mr Skeffington-Lodge.
Mr Skeffington-Lodge Your corny long metaphor's only a stodge After six years of Harold ifs a Laboured conceit To imagine that anyone's yet found their feet. Chas. C. M. Mower 438 Kings Park Avenue, Ruther- glen, Glasgow
Sir: Mr T. C. Skeffington-Lodge's hilarious letter on the subject of Mr Heath urging corn and bunion sufferers to stand on their own feet (28 November) prompts me to suggest that, now that a Gale of Change is blow ing through the SPECTATOR to such invigorating effect, this most prolific of your unpaid contributors should be found a paid post.
Equally at home in castle and cottage, with an unerring nose for the ridiculous and a real lover of his fellow man, who is better suited to succeed your Peter Pater- son in the task of blowing the Commons (which he once graced) sky-high? Marcus Young
16 Charles Street. London wl
Sir: I thought a million SPECTATOR readers would have joyously cor- rected my slip of the pen, when I described Keynes as a bachelor. None has; so, for the record's sake, may I? He was of course married to Lydia Lopokova.
Colin Welch 432 Upper Richmond Road, London sw15
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