27 MARCH 1976, Page 19

Solzhenitsyn

Sir. The dangers to our society stressed by Solzhenitsyn are virtually identical with those cited by Lloyd George in his diagnosis of the Russian Revolution published some forty years ago : 'And then came the deluge. A deluge with an unseaworthy Ark. The timbers were rotten and most of the crew not much better. The rudder was seized by a disorderly rabble of counsellors who spent most of their time and energies in quarrelling as to the direction in which the ship ought to be sailed, until at last it was captured and sunk by a piratical crew who knew their destination.'

J. D. Godber 22 Sandcross Lane, Reigate, Surrey