Frederick Sutton (Oxford Mail, October 3) tells us that an anti-nuclear letter in the Guardian and Independent newspapers had hundreds of signatories.
Was it 200 or 300 or a thousand hundreds?
He also says that "it has been estimated that 60 per cent of the British public are now anti-nuclear". Estimated by whom? And on what basis? And anyway, what does that prove?
If Mr Sutton were told that 60 per cent of the British public wanted to restore witch-burning or bear-baiting, would he want them back?
Carlyle wrote that "Britain contained 40 million people, mostly fools". One sometimes fears that he was right.
RALPH LEAVIS Jourdain Road Blackbird Leys Oxford
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