Greene's protest
Sir: I have no great faith in political protests against the misdeeds of the Great Powers made from a safe distance. Mr Fanshaugh, the director of Eltham Laundry Supplies, SE9, holds a different opinion. Neither his firm nor his name appears in my copy of the London Telephone Directory as a former sub-editor of the Times I check small details like that —1 so I suspect someone is having a little game with both of us.
However, let me reassure Mr F. whoever he may be. I have already made my futile protest against Russian policy in Czechoslovakia, but on the spot during the Russian
occupation in interviews on radio and television in Prague, and in a public meeting at Bratislava. My protest must be well known to the authorities there (who found it necessary. to keep my passport for more than a month) and to my writer-colleagues, so I see no reason to publicise myself further in the security of the West.
Graham Greene Paris 17
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