7 JUNE 1957, Page 18

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS' SIR,—Isabel Quigly appears to believe

that Lind- berg was the first person to fly the Atlantic. He was, in fact, the sixty-seventh. The first were, of course, the British Alcock and Brown years before in 1919.

Surely a film critic ought to know better than to accept Hollywood films as historically accurate! —