"DEAD TOULON" SIR,—As one of the "much travelled and infinitely
more tolerant soldiers" appealed to in his letter in The Spectator of January rith, may I say how strongly I resented F. C. Hainsworth's scurrilous attack upon "British Officer's" admirable article entitled "Dead Toulon "—an article which, beside being accurate in itself, reflects the view of the great majority of Servicemen passing through Toulon.
I do not see how anyone could have thought that article" anti-French ": to me it suggested two morals : first, that people in England' shouldmake greater efforts to help the nation which (when all is said and done) shared with us the fearful moment of September, 1939; second, that the apathy of the French amid their ruins is a warning of what might happen here if we don't put "first things first" in reconstruction.—I am, Sir, yours
sincerely, A. J. COATES, R.A.F. Carnaby,Yorks.
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