Yalta — and after
Sir: The unbearable story told by Nikolai Tolstoy cannot I think, be so easily explained in terms of crass spinelessness in the face of Soviet pressure, or even of a (reluctant) acceptance to pay any price to placate that tyranny. The very determined and ruthless manner in which this disgraceful affair was conducted suggests more than mere moral turpitude or a collapse of all sense of honour.
Those who have argued — with the inevitable reaction from the usual quarters — that much British foreign and domestic policy has in the last thirty years and more been dominated by subversive and alien forces (the conspiracy theory) have here much fuel for their argument. Did we not, even as the Hungarians were rising in Budapest, create a most convenient diversion for the Soviets in the ludicrous Suez episode? And are we not, at this moment, engaged upon a betrayal in Southern Africa to compare with that of Yalta?
After the 'evidence of one shameful episode after another one can no longer ignore the possibility that there were (and. are) more moles in high office in the Foreign Office and other Departments of State than were disturbed by the Ph ilby affair and that they are busy plotting to undermine and destroy this already weak nation and deliver it bound into the slavery and death of communism. Small wonder the files have been destroyed.
Ian McElwalne Friday Farm, Rusper, Horsham, W Sussex
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