30 MARCH 1974, Page 5

Red menace

Sir: 1 quite agree with Miss Reid's letter about the Communist menace. Visitors from Russia and Poland recently were appalled at our

complacemy.

We are such fools we never believe people really mean what they say; the Communists have said they mean to rule thecountry by means of the trade unions. It is time the unions roused themselves. "We are the people of England, and we have not spoken yet." I believe it is time they did. It is noticeable that when we have a good balance of payments and prosperity seems on the way, a spanner is thrown in the works by a strike.

Audrey Wheeler