AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR ON THE DRINK TRAFFIC.
[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
Srn,—A distinguished American, a Professor at a leading University in the United States, who knows England well, and who, with his wife, has been championing the Allies in the newspaper campaign which the Germans have started, writes as follows, in a letter that has reached me to-day :- " Our line of attack is to state the facts about Belgium, to correct the current reports (based chiefly on quotations from the Times, &c.) that England is not doing all she can, and to plead for toler- ance of British annoyance to our shipping, dm, until we have settled accounts with Germany for murdering our fellow-citizens. It would enormously increase your prestige if we could hear that you had suppressed the drink traffic. To us it seems absurd that you should think of beating Germany while you carry that heavy handicap."
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