Sm,—Janus criticises Professor H. Levy for "calumniating Great Britain abroad."
Others go even further and complain when Englishmen in England criticise the attitude of their compatriots to events in Czecho- slovakia, Yet these same people are the first to listen to Czechoslovakia outside Czechoslovakia slandering their country. The England described by many Englishmen "escaping" to South Africa and America often bears very little resemblance to the country in which we are living ;.• in fact it often sounds very like the very " police State " we are so willing to believe that Czechoslovakia has become. Is it not conceivable that Czechoslovaks abroad exaggerate occasionally, to provide the credulous listener with what he wants to hear?—Yours, &c., [The Czechoslovaks in question are not slandering their country, 'but criticising a minority Government which has seized power by revolu- tionary means.—En., The Spectator.]
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