23 APRIL 1942, Page 4

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My reference last week to monoglot Welshmen has brou some very interesting letters, which I wish I had space to rep One of them emphasises the real hardship imposed on such m when in a matter so important as police-court proceedings they to put their case to an English-speaking bench through an interp He observes that while " there must be very few Welshmen w prepared to admit that they cannot speak English—i.e., they a cow to an English dealer, claim goods from an English s master and discuss the war with an English postman—when it to expressing themselves for dear life in the exciting atmos

of a court it is a very different matter." This is very true. to be done about it?