Eastern Europe

Press, 23 February 1977, Page 20

Eastern Europe

Sir, —It ill becomes Philip Lawrence to accuse anyone of being unable to tell ’fact from fiction when he peddles such hackneyed examples of fiction-as-fact as the MaoistTrotskyist fictions “the restoration of capitalism” and “Brezhnev’s personal fleet of limousines.” the Trotskyistcapitalist fiction "the Stalinist bureaucracy” and the Maoist - Trotskyist - capitalist fiction “the new workers’ struggles in all (presumably, ‘Eastern - was intended) Europe.” I. Bemrose can believe that the Warsaw Pact nations’ act of fraternal solidarity with their Czechoslovak comrades was an “invasion.” but they have the absolute right to repress by force of arms all attempts to subvert their demonstrably superior system for the dubious blessings of that “democracy” to which President Carter wishes to return them. I Bemrose must.surely know that N.A.T.O. was formed in 1949 while President Truman’s policy was “rolling back communism.” Socialists consider these nonsocialists. “violent psychos bent on imposing their politics on everyone else.” — Yours, etc.,

M. CREEL. February 21. 1977. [This correspondence is now closed.—Editor]