2 JANUARY 1948, Page 19

BRITAIN AND URUGUAY SIR,--i have read in your issue of

December 26th a most interesting article by George Brinsmead entitled Britain and Uruguay. I do not really believe that the title could have been better chosen, as nothing is more effective to strengthen the relations between two countries than the knowledge of the other. I congratulate you for your policy of under- standing and friendship in international matters, and I hope that I shall enjoy reading in The -Spectator in the future many articles so productive of sensible and practical goodwill as the one to which I have already