"I am now here for a few days to ask you if you could possibly see Dr. Piero Ottone, who is the London correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, a paper which, as you will no doubt remember, has published some of your articles. Dr. Ottone's aim is to approach some of the leading personalities in the British intellectual world, in order to discover their views on the extent to which, and the way in which, the public in this country is being influenced by modern 'mass media' of communication in the field of culture."