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Sir: Sir Denis Brogan should distinguish be- tween trailing his

Scottish kilt and making squalid innuendoes. He writes (17 January): `The "Titantic," built in Harland and Wolff's at Belfast, was sunk, not surprisingly, by an ice- berg.' She went too fast; the VE 2' went too slow. Sir Denis was never on board the `Titanic.' I was.

Edward A. Armstrong 23 Leys Road, Cambridge - -