5 JULY 1957, Page 28

THE LIBERAL PARTY SIR,—Not only is Taper far from impartial

where the Liberal Party is concerned, but he is also in- accurate. I thought a good journalist's first maxim was to check his facts. Had he done so, he would have found that the Liberal Party Council first asked the Government to postpone H-bomb tests at its February meeting (February 9).

The party assembly, which met in September last year, also made the same request, so that the sug- gestion that Liberals only raised this matter to in- fluence the North Dorset by-election is sheer nonsense—like the rest of his remarks about the Liberal Party.—Yours faithfully, H. F. P. HARRIS General Director Liberal Party Organisation, 58 Victoria Street, SW I

[This letter is referred to in 'Westminster Corn- mentary.'—Editor, Spectator.]