THE FRUITS OF NEUTRALITY Sta,—In his Marginal Comment in your
issue of May 31st, Mr. Nicolson has been impressed by the new beautiful Swedish liner, the ' Saga,' by the Heidsieck Monopole, 5934, and by the feeling that " something in this chaotic world was at last returning to normal." This is reasonable, for there are not so many luxury liners afloat after the war, and no European country that took part in the general struggle against the Nazis would probably find it to its interest to produce a 'ship like the Saga' today. It would find it more reasonable to devote its heavily reduced means and its working power to other and more imperative purposes. I am afraid that Mr. Nicolson has overseen the fact that the building of the Saga' is a result of the happy economical conditions which Sweden enjoyed during those long years when other countries were fighting for their lives, and that the building of this ship can therefore hardly be taken as a sign 'of returning normal conditions.—
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