6 AUGUST 1954, Page 16

SIR,-A lot of my fellow-citizens seem to be authorities and

have written to me arguing Englishmen are very very rarely snobs. Quite some Englishwomen are; the husband- pushers in particular. In England snobbery, if any, is found chiefly among our immigrants, new or sons of the one-time new. There II no snobbery in the cricket world; there is, in the age of the common man, a pardonable exclusiveness; a very different quality.—Yours faithfully, C. B. FRY,

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