5 APRIL 1940, Page 22

SIR,—I have had letters of almost identical wording as Mr.

Steel Maitland's ; but tolerant is not the word I should have used myself about some of them.

May I answer him? I do not knowingly use one word when obviously meaning another. If I say or write England, I mean England and no other part or parcel of the United Kingdom, least of all Scotland.

Words one dislikes—even " definitely "—can be avoided.

N. G. F. CoasErr.

Orchard Cottage, Fetcham, Leatherhead.