14 MAY 1942, Page 13

SIR,—Neither Sir Robert Greig, nor Mr. Sitwell, nor any of

your other correspondents, it seems to me, has hit upon the shortest way to " please the Americans," if they must be pleased.

I have known a good many dozen Britons who have visited America in the last dozen years, and the man who far beyond all others pleased the Americans was a man who paid his own expenses. He still talks of the thrill which the Americans got when they heard that.—Yours faith-