7 JANUARY 1944, Page 12

HEAD AND TAIL ra SIR,—It is very regrettable that it

is not so easy in human society as a serpent to tell which is, or ought to be, the head and which the tail. N country started the last war with so magnificent a hierarchical head a Russia. Alas! circumstances proved that the head should have been rather inferior part of the tail, better placed and happier running a tea shop. It was not very different, if all reports be true, in France in 1940 when it was the head or tails that blenched, the tail, the common peopl which stood and stands firm. In this country at his date Abraham Limo would have remained a part of the tail to the end of his days.—Yours, &c