10 OCTOBER 1941, Page 14

IRAN AND EIRE

Sta,—Now that your correspondents have raised the question "Iran or Persia?" perhaps you could find room in your columns for the discussion of the parallel question "Eire or Irish Free State?" I do not believe that there is any more justification for the use of " Eire " than there is for the use of "Iran."—Yours faithfully,

The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W. r. F. DARWIN Fox.