25 AUGUST 1973, Page 4

Sir: I wish to express my warm appreciation of your

admirable leading article in the August 18 issue, headed Hypocrisy about Israel.'

Yours is the only journal out of the many dailies and weeklies I have read that gives such a fair, honest and wellbalanced interpretation of the events under discussion, and with the special and necessary emphasis—ignored or neglected by almost every other writer — of Israel's terribly difficult and unbearable position.

Your article, I think, represented British journalism at its very best.

David E. Tobias 55 Minster Road, Cricklewood, London NW2