Can’t I be anti-Nato in the Labour party?

CND supporters at a protest in 1960, including Michael Foot, who later became the Labour party leader. Photograph: Henry Grant Collection/Mol/REX/Shutterstock

I am appalled at the apparent suggestion that it is not acceptable for a Labour party member to be opposed to Nato (Corbyn will not regain Labour whip while endorsing Stop the War, suggests Starmer, 11 April). I distinctly remember speaking against Nato at a national conference of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the late 1960s, and that view has never changed. I have been a Labour member since 1971 and I have never had any indication from the party that that view was inconsistent with membership.
Simon Fowler
Lamberhurst, Kent

• It was refreshing to read Oleksandr Ruchko’s piece from Lviv (Country diary, 14 April), and to hear of the white stork, the national bird of Ukraine and a symbol of freedom. It brought to mind folk songs of the Tchyka bird, a poetical name for Ukraine itself.
Paul Salt
London