On an inside page The Spectator publishes an important and disturbing article by Professor Nicos Devletoglou on recent American policy towards Greece; and the argument in that...

From the Bangladesh High Commissioner Sir: The comments on Bangladesh which appeared in your esteemed weekly on July 13 seem to be not only intemperate but also totally...

From Sir Christopher Masterman Sir:1 should like to reinforce Miss Brenda Thomas's letter (July 27), with whose views on Mr Heath's leadership of the Conservative Party and on a...

Sir: Your anonymous Labour candidate , in his admirable piece The Road to Wedgwoodbennistan' (August 3) has identified the real division in British Politics today. It does not...

Sir: Your leader (August 3) in which you once again call for the House of Representatives to impeach President Nixon, and for the Senate to find him guilty goes far beyond the...

Sir: Your writer using the pen name 'Tom Puzzle' in the issue dated July 20, 1974, referred to the Chairman of the Lobby Journalists at Westminster. He purported to give,...

Sir: I am not fully convinced by your Military Correspondent's piece (July 27). Cyprus was not comparable with Ulster because it is much easier to put down an attempted coup...

From Lt. Col. R. H. Rohde Sir: The matter of the liquidity of the Local Authorities and the necessity for them to borrow from overseas lenders has become one of concern. It has...

From Ms Jen Murray Sir: May I ask John Linklater why, if the politicians at the Elephant and Castle took an unfair advantage of the BMA representatives by pouring gin into their...

Sir: I understand that envelopes are in such short supply in Great Britain that the major political parties, in readiness for the next election, are importing them from France!...

Patrick Cosgrave Though I still have a strong hunch that there will be no general election this year, all the evidence is that politicians of all parties will be jousting...

My first experience of France and the French was in the year 1920 when I was sent off to Cheverny near Blois to learn the language in a French family. The Place had been...

David W. Wragg Following The Spectator's recent series on 'Defence and deterrence' by Senior Officers of the Services (May 25, June 8 and 29, July 20), David Wragg, the author...

Is America poised to sacrifice Greece? Nicos E. Devletoglou It has been common knowledge for some time that the CIA and the American government were Involved in the Greek coup...

J.R. Bevins An old parliamentary hand once said to me - ; - "In this place wise men soon decide how far they can go, either to No. 10, to Cabinet or junior office. Having got...

Chuck it, Tony! Malcolm Hoppe "For God's sake, lay off!" That message from Mr Campbell Adamson, the CBI's directorgeneral, was a collective cry to the Government that has...

Meeting is such fleet sorrow Rawle Knox Last week's abortive meeting between representatives of the Ulster Defence Association, the most influential Protestant gunman group,...

As anyone who ever downed a molecule of Malmsey, or pursued a wench with Puzzle will readily inform you, he is the most charitable of fellows when it comes to personal failings....

Mervyn Hams Mervyn Harris, author of 'The Dilly Boys', is a South African writer who has spent some years in Britain investigating various aspects of the social scene. This is...

John Linklater Ten years ago some 420 babies in Britain were deliberately and se' verely injured by their parents. Last year this figure had risen to the appalling total of...

Michael Stourton A recent survey has indicated that the dog populations of London and other large cities are steadily in creasing. This is not only a clear warning to cats but...

Martin Sullivan Arnold Toynbee believes that the 'withdrawal and return' motif dominates the entire Gospel story, and he sees in the Transfiguration (a festival honoured by the...

Pamela Vandyke Price A friend whose cooking is so comfortable to my taste buds and intestinal tract that I polish my plate and ask for seconds (many a classy nosh bar would...

Bill Grundy Being a person of low taste, one of my favourite couplets goes "I know two things about the horse,/And one of them is rather coarse," By a natural progression from...

Philip Kleinman There's one topic you can't get away from these days, whether you're talking to politicians, housewives or advertising men. You guessed right, it's inflation....

Somewhere in his published works, Bernard Shaw modestly suggests that all it takes to make good Shavians of ourselves is to read the Complete Works every ten years. The advice,...

Denis Donoghue Seventy Years 1852-1922: Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory Edited by Cohn Smythe (Colin Smythe Ltd £9.75) In 1914, a few months after the publication of...

INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION by Calvin English translation. S. R. Atkins, Enderley, Rhyd Clydach, Brynmawr, Brecs. YOUNG IRELAND AND 1848 by Denis Gwyn. THE YOUNG...

M.I.Finley The Army of the Caesars Michael Grant (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.50) It used to be said that military academies trained officers to win the last war but one....

Michael Horowitz Kerouac Ann Charters (Andre Deutsch £3.95) These were the daze — the last twenty years, the expanding moment, the continuous Present — picked up from Jack...

Peter Ackroyd The Next-To-Last Train Ride Charles Dennis (Macmillan £2.95) The Sword and the Stallion Michael Moorcock (Allison and Busby £2.50) There have been some very...

Bookend You learn something new every day. In order to publicise their main July novel, Forrest Webb's The Snowboys, Tandem Books produced an arresting double-crown poster in...

A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (Chichester Festival Theatre) In The Seagull the novelist Character, Trigorin, speaks his own epitaph: "An interesting writer but. not as...

John Brideut The 1957 settings of Blake were a fine culmination of Vaughan Williams's lifelong interest in solo song. For some time past he had been using thicker textures of...

Waspe It is a long time since the theatre business was so universally amused by anything as by the fact that the Royal Court Theatre is actually advertising for an Artistic...

Robin Young I cannot say that I especially regret the Bolshoi performances (Don Quixote and Spartacus) which absence abroad prevented me from seeing. The Russian Russians have...

Clive Gammon

young teacher. Well, -a 'surrov' teacher anyway, on a much easier number than his comprehensive school colleagues or even infant school teachers: he, with two others, had...

Nicholas Davenport Turnover on the Stock Exchange has fallen to such a pathetic shadow of its former body that I expected stockbrokers to cheer the Tony Benn announcement that...

A feature of share markets in the past year has been the remarkable weakness of the mining finance houses despite dramatic rises in commodity prices. London-based houses have...

A.A. Shenfield "When will they ever learn?" runs the refrain of the well-known song. In the field of economic policy the answer appears to be 'never,' for the capacity of...

Sir Denys Lowson, the unit trust manipulator and former Lord Mayor of London, is no doubt sitting quietly at home, deciding whether to retire to Canada or Scotland, keeping his...