18 JUNE 1937, Page 22

SIR, —My congratulations on your June r th issue when for

the first time on record your Spectator has succeeded in avoiding the 'wrong use of " England and English," and has used the correct " British, &c.," throughout.

Your June 4th issue had two horrible examples in the " News of the Week," when you spoke of the " King of England," and English Prince, &c.

It really was inexcusably bad . . .

Of course the real reason is that sub-consciously you Londoners do not think in terms for Britain and British, but continue in a narrow parochialism of England, &c.