11 DECEMBER 1942, Page 14

CANADA AND THE U.S.A.

SIR,-It might in-crest Mr. Harold Nicolson to know that, irrespective of any a-131e of oro.ection, the area of Canada is actually greater by 3 per cent. than that of the Unted States. The exact figures are 3,684,723 square miles for Canada, and 3,564,658 for the U.S.A. with Alaska.—Very