Jamaica
Sir, —Mr Lyndon Johnson’s •’barnstorming’’ tour of Jamaica during the celebrations of the island's independence, as reported in ‘"Hie Press." seems hardly commensurate with the dignity of a nation outside the
British Commonwealth, of which, after all, Jamaica is stiff a number. The free djotnbution of innumerable American flags, and all that head-patting of infante is. of course, part of the accepted technique of a door-to-door salesman, but the adoption of such tac'.ic* during an official visit of the Queen'* sister, whose mission was to bestow Britain’s formal blessing on the new status of an island she had ruled for 300 yea s, seems to my reactionary English soul a rather lamentab <■ exhibition of bad taste and bad manners.—Yours, etc . 1. TREW. August 9 1962
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29898, 11 August 1962, Page 3
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