17 JUNE 1943, Page 12

Sia,—Your correspondent Sir Claud Russell, speaking of Italy's Abyssinian aggression

as deriving its sinister significance from Abyssinia's member- ship of the League, remarks: "How and why Abyssinia came to be a member of the League is another story." Surely that is precisely what it is not, since it was only under pressure from Italy that Abyssinia was admitted to membership.—Yours truly, LONSDALE RAGG Athenaeum Club. (Archdeacon of Gibraltar).