5 AUGUST 2000, Page 26
Pro- and anti- Yank
From Mr Michael Hugill Sir: The American quoted in Mr Raby's let- ter (29 July) is clearly not typical. Neither were the two Americans sitting behind me on a bus from Rome to the airport who expressed loudly their relief at being on the way home, and their contempt for Italy and the Italians, summed up in a clinching, dis- missive remark by one of them: 'They'll never catch up.'
Michael Hugill
Kersfield Road, London SW15
'He said he's scared of stepping on the cracks in the road.'