TELLING AMERICA
Sta,—In your issue of October 3rd an American journalist objects that news from this country is not of a kind to inspire other peoples to join in the war, "the real complaint is not that the British situation is .not fully explained, but that it is not understood by American people in such a way as to lead to speedier and more effective action on their part."
Is this lack of understanding due to the present lull in the West or to doubts about our war effort? But there is also a larger aspect, as Mr. A. A. Milne pointed out in a letter to The Times of September 5th. This island is an oasis whose sufferings, at worst, have been a trifle compared with the agony of enslaved Europe. Have the sufferings of the conquered countries been depicted sufficiently vividly to the American public? There is no lack of material and if it can be suitably presented to the workers it would surely bring the realisation that only by too per cent, industrial effort can the day of deliverance be hastened, and the added horror of pestilence and famine be averted.—Yours faithfully, ANNE R. CATON. 8r Cliff ords Inn Flats, Fetter Lane, E.C. 4.
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