It is a strangely mixed pack yapping at the heels
of•the Prime Minister, and I should have thought the Spectator too fastidious to join it. —R. G. LIVEING, Commander RN (recd.), Alverstoke, Hants No one has explained why Britain attacked Egypt rather than Israel, the latter being the immediate aggressors; nor how, by attacking the canal, which was well behind the actual combatants, we 'kept the fighters apart.' There certainly never will be peace in the Middle East till the Arab-Israel animosity is cleared away. It seems to me that no settlement is possible until the 900,000 Arab refugees, exiled from the land that they and their forefathers had dwelt in for centuries, are allowed to return.
—JOHN W. GALLOWAY, Perth • . . The root reason for our action in Egypt is pretty clear to most thinking people. Control of the Middle East has been a Russian aim for years. Any serious Arab-Israel flare-up would have been exploited at once by Russia. —GROUP CAPTAIN A. P. CAMPBELL, CBE, Stopham, Sussex . . . One note has repeatedly been sounded by writers drawn from all sections of opinion : namely, that there exists between the British and the Arabs a close and powerful bond, which must on no account be severed, and in the name of which no Arab country must be in any way offended. . . . Those who have grown to political consciousness since the war have little evidence of the affinity. If it is a myth, it should be exploded. If it is a reality, will someone please point out what it consists of, and how it manifests itself?
—VERA QUINN, Jubilee Place, SW3 . . . Granted the premise that by intention the action taken against Egypt was in the nature of a police or preventive action, it is unreasonable to take exception to the use of air bombardment to neutralise our opponent's air force on the ground and so save not only our lives but theirs.
--DAVID HENSCHEL, Dulwich College
I believe that when the present hysteria has died down and the country as a whole has given the flow of events a little sober thought, it will come to thank its lucky stars that it had a man both capable of grasping and wise enough to grasp the nettle at the right time.
—H. ALAN PEACOCK, Newent, Glos
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