3 NOVEMBER 1961, Page 13

THE LOST TRIBES OF READING

SIR,—I am sure that all my neighbours will join me in thanking Monica Furlong for 'The Lost Tribes of Reading' and the local reader of the Spectator who brought the Rev. G. H. Nicholson's views on racialism to her attention. It is unlikely that pub- licity will cause Mr. Nicholson to change those views, but it may at least restrain him from ex- pressing them openly.

Although not a practising member of the Church of England, I have no wish to see it brought into disrepute, nor our parish magazine sink to the level of Der Stiirnrer.