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action was to Colonel Amery, and I could make it much more clear if I were
to show you our direct correspondence.

But the most important point is how far the Times editor is from
giving a square deal to the efforts that have been made from Alaska to hold
Wrangel Island for the United States. The Times would, of course, be within
its rights in disagreeing with this American attempt, but it is hardly square
partly to ignore and partly to missate the situation, as the Times
editorial does.

All this, as I said in the beginning, is the more true and the
more strange in view of the largely correct news reports of the Times itself,
from which your editor, if he had no time for anything else, could easily
have rectified many of his wrong notions.

It is a grief to me to have to express myself so strongly with
reference to the Times which has in general been so very kind to me. But
the time has come when somebody has to do something, or at least say some-
thing.

Mr. John H. Finley,
New York Times,
Times Square, New York.