Sir, - I feel I ask too much space, but may I assure Mr Hall in North Carolina (June 24th) that I do not think the US is "the devil incarnate". But it is a bit much of a US citizen to sneer at the reliability of European governments, however doubtful, given the record of his own. When, after the horrors of the 1914 war, the League of Nations was set up to try to prevent another, the US government was too mean or cowardly to join, and the second World War came.
The demand for a new universal peace-keeping organisation was so strong that the US government had to join the United Nations. But it has often obstructed the UN and now broken its undertaking to comply with UN policy, with the UN Secretary-General having to ask early this month for something to be done about the US government's debt of $1.6 billion, accumulated over 13 years by this gang in Washington that has the effrontery to lecture the rest of the world about morality. - Yours, etc., John De Courcy Ireland,
Dalkey, Co Dublin.