JP VERNON is entitled to his opinions on Winston Churchill, World War Two and the British Communists (Letters, March 20), but I wonder why he fails to mention the Soviet and British Communist appeasement of Nazi Germany which gave Stalin half of Poland and the Baltic states?

Prime Minister Churchill said of the parts played by the Soviet and British Communists: "They (the Soviet Union) brought their own fate upon themselves who, by their pact with Ribbentrop, let Hitler loose on Poland and so started the war.

"We were left alone for a whole year while every Communist in England, under orders from Moscow, did his best to hamper our war effort." History has proved that the British Communist Party cannot be trusted even in time of its own country's involvement in a world war.

History has also proved that all the traitors Great Britain has had since the end of the Second World War - Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, etc - have all been Communists working for Moscow.

I have had my say. Would I be free to do so in a Communist country?

BERT HARDWICK, Warner Street, Accrington.

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