11 OCTOBER 1940, Page 5

From an Englishman in America : " X [a well - known

American] writes to me ' Why should England need propaganda when the English behave as they do? This shipload of tor- pedoed children singing in their nighties will bring down the house all over the country.' The plain fact, of course, is that America demands, always demands, miracles from Britain—and our people keep on performing them." JANUS.