30 APRIL 1948, Page 5

* * * * I desire to say nothing disrespectful

about the new commemora- tive stamps, except that the aid. one, at any rate, does not move me to recant in any way what I said last week about British stamps generally. The Li one is beyond my range, but to judge from reproductions it is by far the better of the two. Why the better design should have been kept for highly limited use instead of being used for ordinary postage purposes is a question that needs an answer. But pulling casually out of my drawer, as I write, a number of foreign stamps torn from recent foreign letters, I maintain my contention that by any ordinary criterion a great many of them, if not most, are far superior to our own.