SIR.—It was clear that Mr. Conquest's second can- nonade was
meant to sink the brief craft which I launched against him two or three weeks ago. To answer his charge in detail would need more space than either you or my patience • would allow. But it is relevant to point out, since I was accused, in so many words, of being a fellow-traveller, that I have also been accused in angry print of being a 'professional anti-Communist.'
In these days of the New Manicheans we prag- matic radicals .wear such parallel accusations like medal ribbons. But for the record, since records can be so easily smeared and smudged, lam a Western Democrat who would willingly vote even for Mr. Macmillan if Mr. Conan were the only alternative. But I cannot share Mr. Conquest's luxury conviction that in all circumstances and places Communism is the worst possible fate for the people of a country. —Yours faithfully,
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