IT is with no small sense of relief that I read in last week's Malvern Gazette (August 1) of the decision by the organisers of the annual American Extravaganza to relocate the event to a different venue away from Malvern.
At a time when Iraq is in chaos following the US-led war against it, with Iraqi citizens regularly being killed by platoons of Marines, and when British civilians are being detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba under terms which are illegal under international law, it is, at the very least, highly inappropriate that Malvern should play host to an event whose raison d'tre is the promotion of the crass, self-aggrandising vulgarity which passes for American 'culture'.
Given the fact that the USA is currently seeking to assert it's hegemony over the rest of the world to an extent that it has never done before, one does wonder why on earth anybody would wish to hold a festival to promote the merits of the US in the first place.
OWEN MORGAN, Cowleigh Road, Malvern.
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