SIR - Eric Firth (T&A, November 22) really does hate the Americans, or at least, all US administrations.

We all work for money, be it the Yankee dollar, useless euro, xenophobic pound or bolshy rouble.

Who cares what a selfish, possibly empty-headed model thinks about the euro vis a vis the dollar? I know which I should like in the bank for a rainy day.

Just because one has his country's interest at heart, it does not make him a xenophobe, although one of the latter is much better than a misguided Europhile.

I'm surprised he puts up with what he calls "stupid, tiny-minded xenophobes", otherwise he would have packed his bags to join his heart, which obviously resides over the Channel.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley