Letter: Briefly
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YOU DESERVE a good frappe on the knuckles. Not a frappe as de Gaulle's legacy to France was described in Neal Ascherson's piece. A force de frappe would appear to have more in common with an ice-cold drink than an independent nuclear deterrent.
Alan James, Brighton
This was a sub-editing error, not Neal Ascherson's.
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