24 JULY 1947, Page 17

DISTANCE NO OBJECT

Sm,—Can it be that such a man or god as Janus is not a member of the Society for Pure English and does not know its thirty-sixth tract, published in 1931 and ccntaining a discussi an by Mr. C. T. Onions of the history of the phrase " distance no object " ?—Yours faithfu:ly,

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