LETTER: Initial meaning

From Mr Martin Purser

Sir: You refer in your front-page report of 11 April to Jonathan Aitken's doubtlessly altruistic and innocent unremunerated directorship of the enigmatically named company Future Management Services. Surely, it can be no more than the wildest of coincidences that this all-embracing name has the same initial letters as the shorthand used throughout the arms sales world for the US government's Foreign Military Sales process.

Yours etc.

MARTIN M. PURSER

Glasgow