5 OCTOBER 1974, Page 4

Aiee!

Sir: If the American liberal press had (according to Mr Al Capp, September 14)not hounded Mr Nixon he would not have been driven to his excesses. And if the German liberal press had not hounded Hitler, and if Trotsky and others had not hounded Stalin, and if . . . aieee! Mr Capp seems to have been hounded by his typewriter.

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