Sir, The Commission for Racial Equality has overreached itself in attempting to censor material written 70 years ago (“Tintin book is crude, racist and must be banned”, July 12).
Like everything written in the past, Tintin’s colonial adventure into the Congo is a product of its time and should be viewed as such. Failing to apply the proper context to this case demonstrates a distinct lack of imagination on the part of the CRE.
If the CRE decides to apply modern criteria for race relations to older books, we will rapidly find our stores empty, void of anything interesting less it offend someone or something.
ALEXANDER CLARK, Wokingham, Berks
Sir, While touring Lanhydrock House in Cornwall recently I saw in the children’s nursery a book, lying casually on a chair.
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What chance would there be these days of getting Gollywog Goes Fox Hunting published?
MARC HOLMES, Middlewich, Cheshire