11 AUGUST 1939, Page 23

"MADE IN ENGLAND"

Stn,—When travelling in Hungary recently I got into con- versation with a young Rumanian, partner in a large blanket- manufacturing firm.

I was examining one of the um. elling rugs he had with him, and he said : "We send very many of those to England— only then we sew 'Made in England' into them."

In my innocent amazement, I exclaimed : "But are you allowed to do that? " "Oh," said he, "we just sew in what the English buyers tell us to. We would sew in anything else if they told us to."