26 AUGUST 1966, Page 13

Vietnam : the Road to Peace

SIR,--I hope Mr Enoch Powell can be persuaded to elaborate the arguments which lead him to the con- clusion expressed at the very end of his article, where he says that if the Americans were to with- draw 'softly' from Vietnam, then 'on that day North Vietnam's new problems would begin. and China, if her aspiration really is to rule in Hanoi and Saigon. would find herself farther away from it than before.'

I sincerely hope he is right, but just why does he think this would be so?

DAVID S. ANDERSON

Braehead, Helensbnrgh, Dumbartonshire