15 JUNE 1962, Page 17

HOLY XENOPHOBES

SIR,—Reading this Note in 'Spectator's Notebook' in your issue of May 4 I was instantly reminded of the Great Orange Toast which I last saw recorded in Sir Arthur Bryant's Age of Elegance—it ends: . . . and may he never lack a brisk protestant boy to kick the arse of a papist; and here's a fart for the Bishop of Cork.

JAMES C. MENHINICK Basrah Petroleum Company Ltd., P.O. Box 21, Basrah, Iraq