LETTERS TO THE EDITOR •
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Sm.—There is one point of view in the controversy over air farm that will not have come into Professor D. W. -Brogan's purview of the subject, and, indeed, does not seem to have occurred to anybody else. There is a now not inconsiderable number of travellers abroad who use the aeroplane to bail themselves out of difficult situations caused by H.M. currency regulations in the far corners of the world. Arriving, as I did the other day, in Algiers from the other side of the Sahara, with a very inconsiderable number of torn Algerian notes of small denomina- tion in my pocket, after a day sustained by pea-nuts and white wine, I was glad to get into the plane to Paris knowing that I should not have to disburse a penny until I stepped out into the fog-filled gloom cf Kensington High Street. And I cannot but feel that the amount to be saved by the withdrawal of free meals must be negligible. Outward bound I can have an excellent meal between Calais and Paris on the .Golden Arrow which costs me about a pound. I cannot believe, in complete agreement with Professor Brogan, that anything I have eaten on the plane is worth more than ten shillings. But my point is that the man who arrives in Algiers with no money—currency we call it today—after a diet of mint tea among the Tuaregs, is glad enough to eat his free ham and cheese 8,000 feet above Clermont Ferrand.—Yours
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