27 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 21

THE HORN OF AFRICA SIR, — We read with great interest your

article entitled 'A Spectator's Notebook' in your February 13 issue.

We appreciate the genuine concern of the Spec- tator over the future stability of the Horn of Africa. Most unfortunately ostensibly well-meaning people have been fostering the 'Greater Somalia' fantasy for fifteen years and thus building up blind Somali ambition. Hence, Ethiopians would be very pleased to be persuaded that there are no Western Powers behind any plan to carve off Ethiopian territory.—

Counsellor Imperial Ethiopian Embassy, 17 Princes Gate, London, SW7