14 OCTOBER 1960, Page 17

WES T SIDE STORY l b • I was surprised to read

in last weeks Spectator tja! I had accused Mr. Harold Macmillan at the bribed Nations of making 'a wild defence of the question; 'lb% colonial record and . . . an equally wild elect. 41g of the Communist refusal to permit. free and telns in Germany.' I had in fact written mild — Nish c.a,_n only apologise for my bad handwriting. I min. 'Bt wild was more appropriate, as the Prime dra Islet's cardboard urbanity is one of his minor

Whacks.—Yours faithfully,

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