27 JUNE 1931, Page 16

A ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE FOR BURMA

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—I hope that your readers will support you in your admirable appeal for Burma, and if they are not acquainted with Burma they might do worse than read a book entitled The Soul of a People, written by the late Mr. Fielding Hall and published in 1917. It is bad enough to have had all the machinery of currency and exchange ruined by politicians since the War, without also having to see a rare and wort• derful nation like the Burmese sacrificed to the stupid standardization which is all that the modern politician seems able to grasp when in search of a policy.—I am, Sir, &c.,

9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 2.

E. S. P. HAYNES.