Now that the ball is over
Sir: Mr Roger Franklin confidently ex- plains (Letters, 23 May) why no nation— whether Czechoslovaks or ourselves— should attempt to resist aggression, or even threaten to resist aggression, by force. He clinches his powerful arguments with a knock-out blow that leaves me reeling helplessly: a reference to one of the most profound thinkers of our age: 'As Anthony Wedgwood Benn told the Russians last week, old-style military imperialism proved too costly for the English in the long run.'
This is most encouraging, and it would be a good idea to have Mr Wedgwood Benn—or Mr Franklin - repeat his assur- ance in Prague (and in Biafra and Israel while he is about it). One thing oniy still troubles me a little: Mr Wedgwood Benn knows that imperialism is too costly; Mr Franklin knows that imperialism is too costly; the question is: does Mr Brezhnev know this as well?
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