13 MARCH 1942, Page 14

MR. NICOLSON AND YUGOSLAVIA Sue,--1 read with great interest Mr.

Harold Nicolson's comment on Rebecca West's book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon reviewed in The Spectator of February 27th. I thought it an extremely interesting analysis of that admirable work on Yugoslavia, in which Miss West succeeds in getting to the very core of Yugoslavia.

In the last paragraph of the article, a slight correction is, however, necessary. The sentence: "The vultures today have seized the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Germany, Italy, Bul- garia and Rumania have partitioned the country. . . . " is not quite accurate. The truth is that Yugoslavia has been partitioned off by Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary, but not by Rumania.

I should be most grateful if you would kindly make this known to