SIR,—In your issue of November 9, Mr. Donnelly, a Labour
MP, alludes to Sir Anthony Eden's 'incredible follies.' As I write, the Middle East is quiet, and an Anglo-French police force is preparing to hand over to a United Nations force—the first of its kind in history. But for Sir Anthony's follies, the whole Middle East would at this moment be engaged in a war of extermination : bombs falling on Cairo, Tel Aviv, Amman and Damascus would be decimating men, women and children, and behind the smoke Russian compulsory volunteers would be swarming in. It would appear that Sir Anthony's follies are wiser- than the wisdom of Mr. Donnelly and his fellow-voyagers in Cloud-cuckoo-land. The prompt and courageous action of this Govern- ment contrasts markedly with that of Labour, who in 1948 were so defeated by their respon- sibilities in Palestine that they simply walked out of them, leaving Jews and Arabs to shoot it out. It is fortunate for the world that Labour is out of power at this moment.—Yours faithfully,
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