27 MAY 1943, Page 20

Long Distance. By Walter Elliot. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) COLONEL WALTER

ELLIOT was an outstanding success as a broad- caster, and his B.B.C. talks during 1942;to America and the Empire were well worth reprinting. The talks are those not of a' automaton, but of a sane, honourable and intelligent man of wid• experience, and they are enlivened by delightful personal touch such as when he said to the Americans, on October 15th, 1942: " When I hear people—Americans, Indians, speaking of old feud with England, it makes me smile. I suppose the English ley hanged more Elliots alone—certainly more Borderers—for raiding an burning throughout the centuries, levying war and refusing peace (f0 we lived on this frontier) than the total of all the people who -wet

killed in the War' of Independence." .