SIR,—Your editorial on December 9 had the tone of exasperation
towards CND which it is now be- cornimi fashionable to adopt. (The changes in attitude to CND since its inauguration would make a fine study in journalistic motives.) I am sure, how- ever, you have not forgotten, though you omitted to mention, firstly the tremendous dangers of the multiplication of H-bomb-producing countries, and secondly the fact that Britain is ilt, longer such a prop to the Western military alliance that the alliance will collapse without her. On the first point, it is held by many that the most important task in the world at present is to stop the spread of H- bombs, and that Britain can have influence in this only if she herself has no H-bombs. On the second, you yourself, sir, have on occasion castigated Mr. Macmillan for his delusions of national grandeur, and must surely recognise that our present 'defence' is the known American support of a status quo of v,hich we are a part.
By abandoning our attempt to keep up with the H-club, using various ex-American weapons, we should, it is arguable, be in a better position to propagate, by our aid and our diplomacy, the aims of our 'Western Alliance.' We are, after all, bound to the US by a common philosophy; not, chiefly, by a cornmon strategy.—Yours faithfully, J. S. ROE 38 Bessborough Road, Harrow, Middlesex
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