21 MARCH 1941, Page 14

B.B.C. REPORTING

SIR,—Mr. Herbert Worsley defends the B.B.C. report of Mussolini's recent speech. Emphatically, I do not. " Janus " is perfectly right— after the B.B.C. commentary (not news in any sense of the word) I said to my wife: "What did Mussolini say? " I agree that Mussolini is all Mr. Worsley says, and more! But, we can only get the gist of what he thinks by hearing what he says—a vastly different thing to the construction someone in London puts upon the-statements. After all, that " someone " is equally coloured by the expressed enmity of Mr. Worsley to Mussolini.—Yours faithfully,

HERBERT C. ROBINSON.

Ballyhue, Hextol Crescent, Hexham, Northumberland.