23 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 20

DOWN INTO EGYPT

SIR,—Surely your ME correspondent meant to compare Ben-Gurion to Joshua, rather than to Joseph? ('Israel's Joseph,' Spectator, Novem- ber 16).—Yours faithfully,

JOSEF AARON (Israeli Journalist)

[No: see Genesis, chapter 45, verse. 17 to end of chapter.—Editor, Spectator.]