24 FEBRUARY 1939, Page 23

HOME TRUTHS FROM AMERICA " [To the Editor of THE

SPECTATOR] SIR,—I do not take in The Spectator, but often see it.

I was shocked to read the article, " Home Truths from America," and feel it was a very great pity to publish same. In these days of storm and stress, and open enemies, it seems to me highly undesirable to air views likely to harm friendly relations with America. For this reason I feel bound to enter

a protest.—Yours faithfully, E. M. YOUNG. Durweston, Blandford, Dorset.

[To be told that the average American thinks British pres- tige has fallen is no doubt unpalatable, but it is not our view that the right treatment of unpalatable truths is to suppress them.—ED. The Spectator.]