I WOULD like to add my views to Mr John Sefton’s of Wednesday, April 20 in the Adver. I think I am qualified as I served in the Middle East from 1945 to 1948, six months in Bengazi with the Royal Engineers, Christmas 1945.
Really John you don’t expect any of our leaders these days to know what they are doing? The lunatics are running the asylum in this country at this time. Do you think Eton is a good training school for training envoys for world conflicts?
That’s what being a great statesman is about. I know it’s not normal to think of desert folk with sympathy but the arabs I met in the Tobruk/Bengazi area had had a bad time, first the Italians tried to wipe them out (poison gas), then the Brits chased the Italians out and put them in POW camps. Then the Germans came and surrounded Tobruk and drove the Brits back to El Alamein. Then when Monty had enough guns he charged back up the desert again.
Meanwhile the local Libyans are trying to live in this desert hell, they certainly have my sympathy. I know it’s only desert, but its there and its got oil under it!
ALLAN THIPTHORPE Queens Drive Swindon
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