L'ETAT C'EST NOUS
SIR.—Pharos should behold the beam that is in his own eye before bothering about the mote that he pretends to see in his journalistic brothers'.
Everyone knows that Stalin said of the Pope, 'How many divisions has he got?' But Pharos apparently does not know that he directed the same sneer at de Gaulle.
It happened at Yalta when Churchill was pleading for France to be admitted to the concert of Great Powers. In resisting the plea Stalin contrasted the paltry eight divisions which were all that de Gaulle could muster with the thirty divisions that the Poles of the Lublin Committee already had in the field.— Yours faithfully,
WILLIAM FORREST
Diplomatic Correspondent, News Chronicle 12-22 Bouverie Street, EC4 [This letter is referred to in 'A Spectator's Note- book.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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