15 MAY 1971, Page 26

Sir: How many of your readers remember going into the

booking office at Victoria station, and buy- ing a ticket to Basle, no formality nor passport required? There was a customs examination. After the first war it seemed as silly that Europe should continue a group of little independent states as that we should go back to the seven petty kingdoms of old Eng- land. Your, Sir, objection to going now into Europe seems to me as short sighted as the politicians who hardened frontiers in 1919.

Why not referendum? Because this simple issue will be clouded by economic propaganda which no one can fathom.

J. A. H. Bell Springfield, Grasmere, Ambleside, Westmorland.