Notes & Asides

Dear Mr. Buckley:

To the best of my knowledge, the “famous occasion” was not in the Thirties, but rather March 1916. The setting was not the Oxford Union debate (Strachey, a lifelong Cambridge man, was terrified of speaking in public), but rather the Hampstead Tribunal, which was hearing appeals from conscientious objectors. Finally, both your question and answer are inaccurate [“New Thoughts on Abortion,” “On the Right,” August 5] according to the Holroyd biography.