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No sin of omission
Sir: Jonathan Mirsky (Books, 10 May) quotes Tony Judt stating that Arthur Koestler was ‘silent’ on ‘the famines, the expropriations, the wholesale deportations of peoples authorised by Stalin’. Koestler devoted most of the third part of his The Yogi and the Commissar to these subjects.
David Ashton
Norfolk
Guard duty
Sir: I have to advise Leonard Allen (Letters, 10 May) that his defence of what he refers to as ‘The Guards’ is misplaced. The Brigade of Guards and Household Cavalry have fought for freedom in this country for the BBC, and anyone else for that matter, to be able to screen what it likes without fear, favour or censorship. That, Mr Allen, is of far more importance and significance.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
Hundon, Suffolk
New depths
Sir: Bernard Levin memorably described Harold Wilson as ‘the worst British Prime Minister since Lord North’. If he was alive today, I am sure that he would revise his judgment, demoting Wilson in favour of the present incumbent.
Richard Skilbeck
Newbury, Berkshire
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