30 MAY 1969, Page 26

Heart of the matter

Sir: You may consider it appropriate, at this juncture in our national affairs, to draw the attention of Mr Harold Wilson, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, to a state- ment made by Renan, apropos the French national disaster of 1870: 'Ce qui nous a manqué ce n'est pas le coeur; c'est la tete' Kenneth M. McCracken Inglestone. Kelso, Roxburghshire