17 APRIL 1947, Page 18

WASTE PAPER •

Sra,—It is a crazy land, this Britain of ours. According to an expert opinion, no less than one-fifth of the entire paper-supply now goes to official forms. These descend on us in avalanches every day. Mean- while, publishers are in despair, newspapers and weeklies have to issue starvation editions, the entire English-speaking world (not to mention many foreign countries) are crying out for English books which cannot be supplied! How long are these intolerable short-sighted tyrannies