28 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 15

THE VOICE OF AMERICA.

[To THE EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—The Teuton's attack on the English language and all that it represents by its heritage from Boadicea, Harold of Hastings, Magna Carta, Bannockburn, and Culloden, and our own efforts in 1776 makes one smile. As our mutual speech teaches, with its jurisprudential and ethical founda- tions, respect for woman, keep your word, and when one knocks a man down be the first to help him up. And now we are all "up against it." Our women are knitting and getting things together for your fellows at the front, and all bands are with you. Not strange, Sir, when your " God Save the King " and our " My Country, 'tie of Thee," chime to the same