AMERICANS AND LONDON PRICES.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During a conversation on Anglo-American relationship with the London manager of a big American firm, I was surprised and humiliated to hear that it is customary in many of the West End shops to charge Americans 20 per cent. above the usual prices for anything that is not clearly marked. I was told, moreover, that his wife was obliged to get an Englishwoman to do her shopping for this reason. This was only one of a number of instances he mentioned in which Americans and Canadians were treated with a rudeness that one would hardly expect of English people. It is easy
to believe that this narrow, unfriendly attitude on the part of our shopkeepers is doing a good deal to undo the work of Page in bringing the two related nations to a better
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