Abstract
Last December, in a letter to the New Statesman, Graham Greene amused its readers by pointing to the lighter side of the otherwise gloomy scene in the ‘normalised’ Czechoslovak media. This provoked the Prague Communist Party political and ideological weekly Tribuna to make an irascible attack on the left-wing London magazine, omitting to mention that the offending letter had come from the pen of one of the major writers of our time.
The full text of the letter and a slightly abbreviated version of the Tribuna article are given below, the latter in a translation provided by the Radio Free Europe research department.