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Roger Morgan in his review of Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (¡°Mining a rich seam of history¡±, Books, 11 December) informs us that in 1951 Bevan ¡°demonstrated his leftwing credentials¡± by refusing to address the Cambridge 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Labour Club. I just do not understand the reasoning here. Surely it would have been much more effective for Bevan to have used his oratorical skills, and made his case, rather than ¡°arguing that Cambridge was not the place for him¡±.

R. E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
51¹ú²úÊÓƵ College London