1 MARCH 1957, Page 7

ONE AMERICAN who has shown no inconsistency over the Middle

East is Mr. Spanel, a prominent businessman and a staunch friend of Britain and France. He takes columns of space in American newspapers to publicise his .own views and those of some well-known American columnists on international affairs. I have not always seen eye to eye with Mr. Spanel; but 1 think his pronounce- ments are an excellent idea. He has had an in- credible success in France; after a broadcast over Radio Europe he received 1,000,000 postcards from Frenchmen expressing friendship for the United States. These postcards were personally delivered to him in America by a special French Postman, who seems to have had a rather better reception in New York than King Saud.