12 JUNE 1971, Page 24

Sir: Ts it not strange that the 'little englanders' now

form the extreme left and the extreme right? The electoral eunuchs who would keep Britain out of Europe are quite right in insisting that the alternative to ening in is simply to stay out..

To stay out and ultimately., choose whether to be an off-shore state of America, or a far-Atlantic banana republic.

I am English, but T have no wish to surround myself by blinkers, for I am also European. Being English am neither better nor worse than my European neighbours: but I am European, as indeed are you.

Do, please, stop making the once respected SPECTATOR took so damned silly. If you are to be but a propaganda sheet for the anti- Marketeers at least give yourself away (as indeed your Notebook does, frequently) and don't have the cheek to charge ten new pence.