SICAGERRAK AND ICATTEGAT
Sia,—I cannot for the life of me see why " Janus " finds the "Skagerrak and Kattegat" advertisement "astonishing." To me it looks much the same as its predecessors in this "Beer is Best" series. Even the most assiduous reading between the lines did not bring a vision of hordes of brewers engaged in upsetting the "idle chatter" campaign with a view to further subversive action. All I could picture was an ordinary enough chap enjoying a glass of beer with a friend or two as audience, explaining "What Winston should have done." Following this came the thought that the o.e.c. was occupied better thus, than in moping at home wondering how the wife and kids were faring in the country.
The reporter of a National paper assigned to cover the Academy, has placed it on record that "Official Secrets, War Office and Admiralty confidences, and other items of censorable information were being swapped" on Private View Day, while on the first Public Day, "though I stayed all day I heard no word of careless talk." As women apparently vastly outnumbered men in offending, it would appear that a pound of tea would obviously produce far more valuable information than a barrel of beer or a pipe of port. If " Janus " apprehendi dangerous talk only from clubland and St. James's, or dockland and 'St. George and Dragon,' he may "sleep o' nights "; I shall still be
kept awake by the clatter of tea-cups. W. H. STAFFORD.
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