7 JUNE 1946, Page 4

The Government, I observe, is fostering the Travel Association's "

Come to Britain" campaign with a fairly substantial subvention. But it seems to be doing its best, by refusing visas, to prevent any- one from coming to Britain except on the most urgent business. Here is a case of a Belgian engineer who with his wife and son

spent five war years in London. The boy went to an English public school. This year the wife and son would, most naturally, like to visit England and see the many friends they made here. "Not a bit of it," says someone (Foreign Office? Home Office? Jack-in- Office?). " You stay out." So out they will stay. But why in such

circumstances waste money advertising Britain? jANUS.