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Helping Fidel SIR,--It may well be, as Quoodle says, 'axiomatic

of British foreign policy that we grant recognition to any government which is reasonably in control of

its territory'; but that does not mean we should support it. His suggestion that we should give aid to Cuba comes strangely from a former Cabinet Minister. Surely the principle of foreign aid is clear enough: it should be granted only to democracies or,. at a pinch, to friendly countries fighting Com- munist subversion. Is that unreasonable, Quoodle?

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