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1 , 1t - ---- After reading Dr. Comfort's letter about c ' e Phantine nitwits' I too

can think, as he can, of Point or two that have not been sufficiently 'tressed. It would be very helpful if he would taswer these three related questions: (a) Is it true that Lord Russell has lumped to- gether the leaders of Britain, America and Russia as being equally homicidal, although , Russia alone has re-started nuclear tests? l) Is it true that for many years after the war the Americans possessed the bomb while the , Russians did not, yet made no use of it? le) Is it true that, during that period, Lord Russell advocated that the West should make unilateral use of the bomb against Russia? 1,1 think, to borrow Dr. Comfort's phrase, that perhaps should be a moral in this somewhere. ;IN's it is that some people are better judges that others of homicidal tendencies. Perhaps it is 4t even elephantine nitwits should think twice hc„-1I taking Lord Russell's advice. Or has he ell right all along?

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DONALD HUGHES