31 JANUARY 1947, Page 14

A UNITED EUROPE

Sta,—Your note on the preliminary manifesto of the " United Europe " group seems to me a little harsh. You suggest that our " real purpose" is left in obscurity. It is simply that the nations of Europe, instead of continuing to hate and injure each other, should try to co-operate for their common good. You suggest that we may be deflecting support from U.N.O. itself ; but the Assembly of U.N.O. at New York has passed unanimously a detailed resolution for setting up an "Economic Council for Europe" with, as far as I can gather from the reports, exactly the purpose that we are pursuing.—Yours faithfully, GILBERT MURRAY. Yatscombe, Boar's Hill, Oxford.