Sir' Having lived as a Jew in England for seventy
years without discovering Mr Adler's numerus clausus (Letters, May 20) (it must be a very numerous clausus) either official or unofficial, at public schools or anywhere else, I was rather surprised by his letter.
It would be understandable if Church of England foundations kept certain places, free for Church of England pupils. But were this so (it is the first I have heard of it) I fail to see the parallel with Arabs in Israel who were, after all, the original inhabitants of their own country.
Is Mr Adler suggesting that the minority groups in Britain are entitled to drive out the British by force and then parade their tolerance at allowing the 16 per cent still left " to form their own party "?
Some of us still remember when the Jews were refugees• hounded from their own countries. We exclaimed in horrified indignation that so few Germans (to their eternal honour there were some) dared raise a voice in protest.
But there are no stones now to throw at Nazism for Jewish voices raised in protest at what is happening in Israel are no more numer ous, unhappily. George Edinger The Reform Club, London SW1
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