11 FEBRUARY 1995, Page 30

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Sir: Mr David Martens has been misin- formed (`Takeover of the teenage scrib- blers', 21 January). The 'smack of firm gov- ernment' was not a Daily Telegraph leader, which would have been unsigned, but a leader-page article by the late Donald McLachlan who became first editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

Michael Kennedy The Sunday Telegraph,

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