ON INCONVENIENT ALLIES
SIR,—Latest contributions to the Week's Good (Get-tough-with-Communism) cause: A fine flourish of classical scholarship from Mr. C. J. Hewart writing from an aptly named reliquary in Darkest Oxford and bouquets from Mr. Christopher Hollis for Asia's favourite sons, Messrs. Syngman Rhee, Ngo Dinh Diem and Chiang Kai-shek. Admittedly, Mr. Hollis pronounces the triumvirate 'tough,' but I find his remark, 'Who would have attained any position in those lands in such times as these if he were not pretty tough?' A curiously cynical commendation from a self-appointed castigator of Communist aggression!
Some time ago I heard of a speaker at an open-air Fascist meeting who took your con- tributors' policy to its logical conclusion and advocated the re-formation of the Waffen SS to organise the 'liberation' of Eastern Germany. On being challenged by a member of his audience he countered with an old Mohammedan proverb which runs, 'He that is the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' to which he received a reply in the same proverbial and theological vein, 'He casteth out devils by the Prince of Devils.' Mr. Hollis and the inhabi- tants of Museum Road, please copy I—Yours faithfully,
IAN HENDERSON
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