3 OCTOBER 1998, Page 36

Sir: If the partly Belgian Peregrine Worsthorne wants all the

British nations to be nice to each other, then how is it he describes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as a `slightly disreputable Welsh maverick' (As I was saying, 26 September)? Wasn't the `Evans' Welsh enough?

Tim Jaques

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