18 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 18

SIR, In your issue of February 11 it is re-

peatedly stated that in my Christmas broadcast I said that five thermo-nuclear bombs would knock Britain out of a war. There is no such statement in that broadcast.—Yours faithfully,

BERTRAND RUSSELL 41 Queen's Road, Richmond, Surrey

[We regret attributing to Lord Russell a statement which he did not in fact make, but we believe that he would not dispute this inference from his words : 'It is understood that . . . one hydrogen bomb could obliterate the largest cities such as London, New York and Moscow.'—Editor, Spectator.]