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Sir: As A Veteran Cold Warrior And An Old Friend

of Peregrine Worsthorne, I was baf- fled by his new distaste for the nuclear bal- ance of terror. Life would be very boring if we could not repent of imaginary sins,......

Sir: Am I Alone In Finding Peregrine Worsthorne's...

nuclear weapons truly extraordinary? To berate the New Right for their stiffness of spine at the time communism was collapsing because of its — to use the Marxist phrase —......

Sir: We Are Astonished That Peregrine Worsthome Has Only Now

become cog- nisant of the depth of the desire of the American Right to wage and 'win' a nuclear war. CND made this point repeatedly dur- ing the 1980s when we were both staff......