FRANCIS STUART

Sir, - Francis Stuart states in your newspaper on November 14th; "No one could ever point to a sentence of mine that was or is anti-semitic".

I read the following sentence in chapter 9, page 63 (Penguin edition) of Black List Section .... "If there was a Jewish idea, which was surely a contradiction, it was a hidden unheroic and critical one, a worm that could get into a lot of fine looking fruit". I will leave it to your readers to judge whether this sentence is anti-semitic or not. - Yours, etc.

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