23 SEPTEMBER 1972, Page 21

UN votes

Sir: One is weekly in your debt as the only publication which consistently tells basic truths about public matters.

Your reminder that the General Assembly of the United Nations has been taken over by the caterwauling Black African states and their few Asian accomplices is particularly valuable.

Would it be possible for you to supply a short factual note on numbers by which, under the lunatic system of voting (' one country, one vote,' so that France = Uganda, for instance), this has been achieved. It would be most useful for ready reference when those of us who try to explain why the UN is merely a black racket' are met by the stubborn incredulity of, say, readers of the Observer and similar propagandist organs.

Hugh Ross Williamson