27 DECEMBER 1946, Page 16

" JEWS AND THE MODERN WORLD "

SIR,—In my review of Dr. Parkes' book in The Spectator of December zoth I said that the Jewish population of Eastern Europe had been reduced from about 5,000,000 to about 700,000. I ought to have made it clearer than I did that these figures did not include in either case the Jewish population of the U.S.S.R.—Yours obediently, LEONARD STEIN. 4 Brick Court, Temple, E.C. 4.