21 MARCH 1958, Page 18

IN HUNGARY

SIR,—Are Hungarian policewomen really 'allowed to wear both lipstick and hair to shoulder length'? (Spectator, March 7, page 291.)—Yours faithfully,

EDWARD GILLOTT Education Office, RAF, Mildenhall, Suffolk [Peter Benenson writes: 'Whether they are allowed to wear lipstick, and hair to shoulder length, I do not know, but they certainly do. In the front row of the court trying a crime passionnel murder there were two such policewomen in a fetching sky- blue uniform. The plentiful supply of cosmetics is one of the most notable features of present-day Budapest.'—Editor, Spectator.]