18 MARCH 1972, Page 18

File on the Tsar

Sir: Has it not struck Sir Thomas Preston (Letters, March 11) that, as British representative at Ekaterinburg in 1918, his conduct in "being in contact with the Czechs" and the White.Army, in rebellion against the Government to which he was accredited, was grossly improper?

A more correct, objective, attitude might have enabled him to save the Imperial family.

George Edinger Amersham, Midhurst, Sussex.