26 NOVEMBER 1994, Page 35

Sir: I can't begin to understand the vituper- ative outrage

that William Cash's piece on the New Jewish Establishment has pro- voked. A midge has been mistaken for a rabid vampire bat. Substitute 'Briton' and `British' for `Jew' and `Jewish' in the article to see how inoffensive it was; and in a minor weekly publication (circulation circa 50,000) for a mainly British readership. I have read The Spectator every week for 25

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years, and the only explanation for this unprecedented phenomenon is that the intellectual tyranny of political correctness in America has brought on mass psychosis. Anne-Carole Chamier

Archandunie House, Ardross by Alness, Ross-shire