3 JUNE 1978, Page 18

Sir: What a waspish and contradictory article you published on

20 May about the late Sir Robert Menzies by Phillip Knightley. Although Australians never took to him, we are told, he won 'election after election'. Gough Whitlam who was 'taken to' suffered a 'crushing defeat'. All very confusing and irritating for Mr Knightley who clearly disapproves of the Australian electorate; perhaps after all there is something in his theory about the broadcasting of Parliament, and from what we learn from George Gale on another page perhaps his theory will be confirmed here.

Michael Player Boharm House, Mulben, Keith, Banffshire