War crimes
Sir: Alistair Home excoriates Nikolai Tol- stoy for 'all the trouble he had caused' (Letters, 19 November) but he has no harsh
words for successive British governments which have neglected to hold a proper inquiry into these events. In an earlier article he merely regrets that Lord Aiding
ton did not come forward with information which could have spared Lord Stockton distress in his last years, but leaves open the question of why he did not do so.
The Government's curious reluctance to hold an inquiry persists to this day. Indeed the All Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group apparently is not interested in investigating what even Count Tolstoy's detractors agree was an horrific crime.
The jury is still out on Lord Stockton's role and will remain so until the libel action that Lord Aldington has brought against Count Tolstoy has been tried. But after so long and with so many key witnesses now dead it may not be possible to get to the bottom of this murky affair.
Portsmouth
Farleigh Wallop, Basingstoke, Hampshire
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