Sir, - Padraig O Cuanachain's tangential slur on the many Irishmen who enlisted to fight in the first World War was objectionable. They joined for an honourable principle and were motivated by no small measure of patriotism. To call them "`gullible" is unfair, but to elide their motives with anti-semitism is simply offensive. - Yours, etc.,
Tony Dignan, Fruithill Park, Belfast 11.