24 FEBRUARY 1950, Page 18

Difficult Situation

SIR.—In the last paragraph of Professor D. W. Brogan's excellent article The Dilemma of the French Left, the old gibe should have read: "The situation in Berlin is serious but not desperate. On the other hand the situation in Vienna is desperate but not serious." I am no erudite doryphore, so I stand open to correction.—Yours, &c.,