2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 15

Sm,—May I add the following simple explanation to - yours on the

above? A very great part of the 15 million a day spent during the war was not only completely unproductive for the purposes of puce but actually spent to be blown up in the air or under the sea!—Yours faithfully,

Little Shefford, Bembridge, I.W.

A. E. OPPENHEIM, Lt.-Col. (Retd.).