ScholarshipsEditor: I read with interest The Sun's recent...

Far from encouraging Canada to stay together, U.S. media, politicians and ordinary people should be courting English Canadians to join the Union. Quebec can be granted Commonwealth status like Puerto Rico, or statehood if it so desires, as long as Quebec understands that statehood is forever and that it must grant co-equal status to English but will receive no reciprocal special treatment for French outside Quebec.

Union of the U.S. and English Canada would, with the demise of the Soviet Union, make this the largest country on Earth. It would expand our resource and population base and show the world that people of good will can erase needless borders and end up prouder, richer and more secure.

If the two Yemens can join, the the two Germanies can join and 12 different countries of Western Europe that speak nine different languages can make great strides toward union, surely the United States and Canada can join. The world is a dangerous place. As population soars elsewhere, the United States becomes a smaller and smaller part of the world, less and less able to defend our interests or promote our principles. The solution is for the United States to expand, constantly, so we can control events in everyone's best interest through cooperative effort on common problems. Canada is a good place to start.

L. Craig Schoonmaker.

New York.