Sir, – “The Government will ‘level’ with the people on hard decisions that it will have to take in the upcoming budget, Tánaiste and Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore said”, reports Deaglán de Bréadún (Home News, September 6th). The people should heed what Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter said about the German people: “A press campaign of four months will convince the German people of the rightness of any idiocy you like to suggest”. – Yours, etc,