1 MARCH 1946, Page 13

PARCELS FROM AMERICA

SIR,—Let me support Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe's protest against the injurious statement from Hampton-on-Thames to The Los Angeles Times that parcels of food, &c., from America to friends in this country are stolen in the British post. My friends in the United States and in Canada, Australia and India have sent me numerous parcels from the beginning of the war, and. I have every reason to believe that all of them have