AMERICAN VISITORS TO ENGLAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Charles P. Eells, of San Francisco, deserves all praise for enlightening the British public on the propaganda the wrong way done by the opprobrious " ticket-of-leave " system and the other methods ingeniously designed for destroying good feeling. In the first place, the offensive word "alien" should never have been used for men fighting and bleeding on the same side. Why not " non-British " I wish you could hear the kind of remarks made by Americans and other Allies on this word alien. Poor Marshal Foch—he was an " alien " too ! Equally deterrent is the "double taxation." I recommend to your readers an important article by Senator Tittoni in the Noma Antologia for January 16th, on this subject of double taxation. In this matter Italy seems to be the most liberal and England the least of European nations. Besides double income-tax the unfortunate foreigner seems to be liable to double succession duty. Will one of your legal contributors state if this is the case ?— I am, Sir, &c., AN " ALIEN " WIIOSE ANCESTORS CAME OVER WITH WLLLIAll TUE CONQUEROR.
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