1 JANUARY 1954, Page 24

THE AMERICAN .WAY SIR,--Persons have been known to suspect that

Senator McCarthy was not, himself, quite a 100 per cent. American. His letter published in the Spectator of December 25th bears out this suspicion. For he dates it 27/12/53 instead of in the right, i.e., American, way, 12/27/53..—