13 DECEMBER 1968, Page 37

Islands in the cold

Sir: You say (6 December) that the Falklanders are opposed to the transfer of sovereignty to the Argentine to a man. This may well be so, though 1 have myself not seen any Falkland opinion on this important matter. May we please have evidence for this statement?

At his press conference in Buenos Aires on 30 November Lord Chalfont, who can hardly be accused of bias in favour of the preservation of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, said: 'All I spoke to, and I spoke to most of the islanders, expressed very strongly their wish that there should be no change in their status and sovereignty.'—Editor, SPECTATOR.