25 OCTOBER 1946, Page 16

COMMUNISM AND NAZISM •

SIR,—The second of Mr. Alan Bullock's articles on Communism contains barely half-a-dozen sentences that are not as aptly-descriptive of Nazism. If Mr. Bullock is an " authority," then the growth of Communism pre- supposes a repetition in Europe of the last thirteen years, and makes a farce of the United Nations. If, on the other hand, the article is no more than the expression of the generalisations of a political theorist, then a great disservice is being done to the same body. At least one of your puzzled readers would welcome a fuller explanation.—Yours