23 AUGUST 1969, Page 27

Put out more flags

Sir: Dear, oh dear. The story Mr Karl Meyer trots out (16 August) about the Roumanian who claimed to the Israeli that be, likewise, was free to abuse Mrs GoIda Meir in public—I must first have heard it applied to Truman by a Russian acquain- tance in Moscow nearly a quarter of a century ago!

Martin Carmichael 4 Queen Anne's Grove, Chiswick, London W4