SIR,—I am not concerned to discuss Mr. Warbey's views (though
I am much more in agreement with them than with those of your correspondent Mr. P. J. Honey); but I 'am dismayed by one argument that Mr. Honey uses:
Mr. Warbey indicates that his own opinions about Vietnam are in full disagreement with those held by the US State and Defence Depart- ments, CIA, the British Foreign Office, myself, Brian Crozier and other Asian experts. A man possessing more humility than Mr. Warbey would draw the obvious conclusion from this.
So might a P. J. Honey of late 1938 have written about the few public men who openly opposed the Munich 'settlement': their opinions would have been 'in full disagreement with those held by the Prime Minister, Sir Horace Wilson, Mr. Geoffrey Dawson, the French government and other European experts.'
Minorities are not always wrong; and conclusions that seem obvious to such imperfect logicians as Mr. Honey are not always correct.
House of Commons, SW/
TOM DRIIIERG
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