30 MAY 1952, Page 22

Dr. or Herr ?

S1R,—Janus has been led to understand that only those with doctorates in divinity and medicine were to be given the title of " Doctor " by the B.B.C.; hence the Federal German Chancellor renamed "Herr." But the B.B.C. is not consistent. The Austrian Chancellor, who is by profession an agrarian engineer, is "Doctor Figl," at least in the B.B.C. publication The Listener and on such programmes as atmos- pheric conditions allow us to hear in Nigeria. I hope Janus will there- fore continue his struggle for the recognition of downtrodden (but