28 MARCH 1941, Page 12

SIR,—If I want accurate information about a district, I look

for a large-scale map of it. What I can get from a pocket atlas is not only less, but is distorted. The honesty of the publisher is not in question: he is not concerned with the small district except if it contributes part of some river or of some range of mountains which is an outstanding feature of the larger area. If you seek straight news about Mussolini, you ought, I suppose, to listen to Italian broadcasts. The rest of us are content that the announcers of the British Broadcasting Corporation give us an occasional pocket-atlas map of Italy, but give most of their attention to matters of greater