I have read with interest Giovanni Bonello’s series of articles on the ‘pillaging’ of the Palace in Valletta (The Sunday Times, August 1, 8, 15).

What a well put case for the rightful owners of the treasures that have been ‘pillaged’ from the Knights of Malta, who as the rightful owners of the treasures referred to, should take the lead from Dr Bonello and sue the French and the British and others who stole the treasures and property. As the writer assumes, the British had no right to pass the Knights’ property to the Malta government on independence; this will include the other palaces, St John’s Cathedral, etc.!

With his comment, “With protectors like these, who wants to be chaperoned?”, the writer must have let his sympathies take control of his senses when he assumed that Malta could have, alone, stood against the might of the Napoleonic French, the Fascist Italians and the Nazi Germans.

The three of them did their best to take Malta under their ‘barbaric’ rule.