23 MAY 1970, Page 26

Going on before

Sir: I was interested in your Balliol College expert's note on Liege/Liege (Letters, 2 May), and looked up the city in Vol. XIV of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The footnote (bottom of p. 39) says the change was made officially in 1951.

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