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RUSSELL REVISED SIR,---Lord Russell's recent statement, 'Macmillan and Kennedy are

much more wicked than Hitler' must be welcomed. It can be taken as a belated—if somewhat exaggerated—repudiation of his strident advocacy of preventive war against the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War. I always had some doubts about the wisdom of going out and dropping a hydrogen bomb in cold blood on Moscow.--Yours faithfully, House of Commons. SW I

DESMOND DONNELLY