11 SEPTEMBER 1959, Page 22

GENERAL DE GAULLE Anthony SIR, —Mr. Hartley, complaining al it British cartoon of

General de Gaulle, asks would be the reaction if the French published 'singularly ignoble' cartoon of the Queen. The .111 of nobility lies in Mr. Hartley's strange comports00 If the Queen ever conspired with a mutinous a.ri; and with the white settlers of the Central Africo Federation in order to seize power, and if she 0111.4 introduced a constitution giving her sufw,e.,i authority and shielding her by law from critictri then surely most people of democratic instinct fvos welcome expressions of disgust from other count!'" Would it not be more in keeping to protest ncIto, the cartoon but rather at the fact that de (J by the trick of marrying power and position. it, sought to ensure that the one man in France ``, real authority is above criticism?—Yours faithit0'; DAVID 01.

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