15 FEBRUARY 1952, Page 15

Asian or Asiatic SIR,—What has happened to the word "Asiatic']

which seems to be rapidly giving way to " Asian "? Is either word pejorative?—Yours, &c., Brackenbury Lodge, Clifl Road, Old Felixstowe. A.P.C. (It is understood that Asians prefer to be so called.—Ed. Spectator.)