You record Viennas gigantic wheel as a “ferris wheel” (Austria criticised over jailing of Jewish author ,5 October). Strictly speaking, it should be called a Graydon wheel, and after its designer,Lieutenant Alexander Graydon, an ancestor of mine, or whose wheels became public attractions in major cities at about the same time as those designed by George Ferris. The favourite film of my mother,Pamela Graydon, was The Third Man, and in which Vienna’s gigantic wheel plays a major fragment,and I always regret that I discovered this interesting fact about its designer only after her death.
Karl Sabbagh
Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire• Ivor Mitchell (Letters, or 2 October) says that Jeremy Corbyn’s policy should be to scrap our weapons of mass destruction but not tell anyone else that they have been scrapped. Isn’t that precisely what Saddam Hussein had done by March 2003?
Jeremy Waxman
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Source: theguardian.com