30 MARCH 1956, Page 16

SIR,—TO help those of other nationality who hope to understand

the British, I offer two quotations of opinion on the result of the Grand National. From the Sunday Express: 'Said Lord Rosebery, "This is one of the most terrible things I have ever known." ' From a Left-wing friend : 'This will preserve the British Monarchy for another twenty years.'—Yours faithfully,

HELEN REID

Farm Cottage, Greenacre, Bosham, Sussex