POINTS FROM LETTERS
ALIEN IMMIGRATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
In regard to your estimate of the number of foreign-born people in this country, I would like to say that when I organized the Alien Campaign in East London, in 1901, which led to the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration in 1902, Polish and Rumanian Jews were pouring into this country at the rate of over a hundred thousand a year. They are a most prolific people. I knew a Hungarian Jew and his wife who had twelve children, all born here. When the father died they promptly changed their name to " White," and they consider themselves English. If they are English, then blood and breed count for nothing.—W. STANLEY SHAW, Captain, late Middlesex Regiment ; London Institution, Finsbury Circus, E.C. 2.
" AN ENGLISH SOLDIER."
Can your reviewer explain by what stretch of the imagina- tion " The son of a long line of Scotch lairds "—Lord Haig— can be correctly described as " An English Soldier " (see the Spectator, .July 28th, 1928, p. 188) ?--R. C. S.
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