21 JUNE 1940, Page 5

It is to be hoped the new order regarding the

obliteration of place-names will be rigorously enforced. A few days ago a Surrey village, from which every signpost had been scrupulously removed, had its name blazoned on some building or other— the church, the garage, the cinema, the lending library, the estate-agent's—at every turn. In another, close by a now armless signpost, the Lord of the Manor of — was still proclaiming his rights on an adjacent post a dozen yards away. If names are to go, as they must, let them all go. JANUS.