16 MAY 1958, Page 20

SIR,—II seems hard to believe that anyone could attack Miss

Quigly's restrained and reasoned review of The Young Lions. (a) Considering that the world is enchained by ideologies, you can hardly think out- side them. (b) The world is in its present condition because of German action. (c) In a world in which intolerance has become a national policy on all sides, from Malta to Cairo, from Moscow to Tokyo— tolerance equates with suicide.—Yours faithfully,

PS: It is something to know that Adenauer is the great bulwark of civilisation.