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Sir: Mr Miles Copeland III (Letters, 13 September) points out several incorrect or misleading comments in Mr Tibor Szamuely's review of Mr Miles Copeland ll's new book, The Game of Nations (30 August).
As one who has not yet been able to read the book, but hopes to do so before long, 1 am grateful for these clarifications which will enable me to form a better advance appraisal of its qualities.
But I regret to have to add that one of Miles III's observations has made the picture, for me at least, more rather than less obscure.
Miles III says that Miles II's political beliefs are not far from those of Szamuely —'except, of course, on the Arab-Israeli question on which they are bound to iffer' (my italics).
Clearly, many different opinions on the Middle East dispute exist, so it is entirely understandable that those of Miles II might be different from those of Szamuely. But am at a loss to understand why Miles II s 'of course . . . bound to differ' from zamuely on this question. Certainly, they ay happen to differ. Why are they bound o as a matter of course?
Would Mr Miles Copeland III favour us ith a further letter in which this puzzling tatement is explained?
Alan Karabus 14 Cambridge Street, Grand Forks, North akota 58201, USA
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