6 SEPTEMBER 1940, Page 8

A VOICE FROM INDIA . . It was there that

your letter and wonderful fat bundle of Spectators reached me. I appreciated the Spectators tremendously, and have read them from cover to cover. T".! left behind for other officers, and two I brought on the tram, journey, which were even more avidly read. Unlike so man)" ul the English papers we see here, including —• The Spectator seems up-to-date and readable even after the closely- filled weeks since it appeared, and it has none of the boasting which the late Government and inspired papers went in f,°r, which appals and shocks one when events belie every boastful word they have written."