POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
SIR,—One might admire the subtlety with which" Clusius contrived last week to make "A Spectator's Notebook" the vehicle for his anti-Soviet propaganda, but for the detestable subject-matter and the deplorable taste he displays. Why should the name of the Soviet Ambassador be dragged in to pass off the insinuations which " Clusius " chooses to make about liberty in the Soviet Union?
The Red Army is fighting to push the damned Germans not out of Russia, but out of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—very different from the Russia of history in precisely the respects which Clusius " thinks it was not tactful of the Bishop of C.helinsford to mention. The Soviet Press and radio bear witness that the Red Army and the Soviet peoples, religious and irreligious, Europeans and Asiatics, former ruling race and former colonies alike, are fighting, in their opinion, against slavery and for "political and religious liberty, for the right to think and speak and write as we like."
" Clusius " may not believe it That is his affair. But he has no right to attribute his fantasies to others—least of all to the Soviet Ambassador.
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