23 JUNE 1967, Page 23

Sir: If an analogy between Czechoslovakia 1938 and Israel 1967

ought to be drawn, one should go further than Tibor Szamuely (9 June).

Czechoslovakia, not 'a small nation' but a conglomerate state, was created after the First. World War. It just failed not to be the cause of the Second World War but we had Poland, a similar state.

It is well known how Israel was created after the Second World War. Now it just failed to cause the third world war. 'We still have East Germany.

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