1 JUNE 1944, Page 14

" WHAT HAPPENED AT TEHERAN " SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Walter

Beck, accuses me of being two years behind the times. It is true that the Saturday Evening Pon changed its violently anti-British policy in 1942, but I have read many covert sneers against this country in its pages since then, the Teheran canard being only the last of a lengthy list. Mr. Beck is too zealous.

As for his two other points, whilst it is correct that the S.E.P. circulates all over America, its chief influence is in the Middle West. Finally, I compared the S.E.P. with the Hearst, McCormick and Patterson groups of newspapers only because they were all tilting against this country. SYDNEY HORLER. Grafjham House, Graffham, Petworth, Sussex.