23 SEPTEMBER 1966, Page 14

The Universe of Hatred SIR, —We can understand and sympathise with

the rage and grief expressed by Mordecai Richler. It would be as well, however, for us not to forget the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia by the British settlers, the treatment of the American Indians by the Americans, the treatment of the Armenians by the Turks, to mention but three other examples of genocide or attempted genocide in modern times. Let us not be led to attribute a unique guilt to the German people.