Banks and Banks
SIR,—In all fairness it must be said, in reply to Leslie Adrian's remarks (Spectator, October 29) about the difficulty of getting even a small over- draft, that evidently there are banks and banks. On an occasion a year or two ago my wife called upon the assistant manager of my bank, Lloyds, Law Courts Branch, being previously unknown to him. She told him that the British Consul in Venice had telephoned her that I had been taken ill in that city, and that she was arranging to fly out to see me on the following day; could she please have £250 on my current account. The assistant manager tactfully and politely explained why she could not: but eventually, against a receipt alone, she walked out of the bank with £250 in, mixed Italian and British currency.
So. as I have said, there are evidently banks and banks; or is it that there are customers and customers? Or, rather, non-customers and non- customers? Or perhaps one has to give credit for saleswomanship! No wonder a lady professor, on the other side of the Atlantic as it happens, recently said, 'In all walks of life men have a tremendous advantage over women—men have wives.'
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Lamb Building, Temple, London, EC4
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