19 OCTOBER 1945, Page 14

PERIL I/4 PALESTINE

Siat,—I have been much interested in the article in your number of August 31st entitled ' Peril in Palestine," by Brigadier Stephen H. Longrigg. There is one point which never seems to be mentioned, and that is that Palestine should be spelled Phalestine or Philistine. This would emphasise the fact the present inhabitants are the descendants of th.- Philistines, who were in the country before the Israelite irruption and