26 AUGUST 1955, Page 15

SIR, —At this moment when the air is heavy with the

beating of doves' wings would it not be a nice gesture to offer the Russians the body of Karl Marx now lying in Highgate Cemetery? They would surely be overjoyed to receive it, while to us the loss should not prove irreparable.—Yours faithfully,

ARTIIUR GORE

Pimlico House, Hemel Hempstead, Hens