4 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 20

Letters to the Editor

Oxford Divided Senior Censor of Christ Church Cyprus Col. Const. Martintm Mr. Butler's Budget Sir Angus Watson, Col. R. C. Harris School Holidays J. M. Knowles, R. H. Ardler Au Pair Pamela Monkhouse, Morna Smith 'The Captain's Woman' Jack Overhill, Neil Bell Super-Superlatives Winifred E. Baker 'Without a Hearer?' A. J. Marchant

OXFORD DIVIDED

SIR,-I am happy to leave it to your readers to consider whether Dr. G. Chilver's evasive and oblique letter answered my arguments on 'the Oxford road question. I am equally happy to leave them to judge whether my criticisms of certain people in the University were marked by 'personal • offensiveness,' as Dr. Chilver claims. There is, however, one point in Dr. Chilver's letter to which I must reluctantly draw attention, I am very sorry that he should have seen fit to make a damaging innuendo against the Dean of Christ Church, based on an alleged remark by the Dean. As Dr. Chilver must know, the Dean is at present in the United States and is not in a position to answer such attacks at all speedily. I can at least claim that my criticisms were directed at persons in Oxford who are well able to reply at once if they see fit.—Yours faithfully,