Letter: In Brief
Sir: Under the socialist regimes of eastern Europe the obligatory form of address was "comrade". When do our masters propose to make "mate", now used quite indiscriminately by public servants and others, a statutory requirement - surely a fitting confirmation of their egalitarian principles?
P G ADDISON
Ipswich
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