10 AUGUST 1962, page 13

Sir—years Before Aldington's Book The Late Colonel George...

of the 7th Bn. HLI who was for a time Wavell's Brigade Major and on whom fell the duty of arresting one disciplineless subaltern an- noyed me, then—innocently misled by Graves......

The Lawrence Myth Captain R. Gordon

Us Par+sports Clancy Ailed Opera D istributing Profits What About the Envelopes? The True Emulsion Charles Peace Co mmonwealth and Common Market John Terraine, Alan W. Hyde......

Filmed Opera Sir,—in His Two Final Sentences Last Week,...

Cairns summed up precisely the relationship that might exist between cinema techniques and opera. It is indeed possible to imagine The Ring, Aida, Car- men and Faust filmed to......

Us Passports Sir.—your Correspondent, W. D. Paden, In...

Brian Moore's review of Mary McCarthy, states that Communists may receive US passports. He goes on to imply that persons are not gaoled in America for their ideas, as distinct......

The Lawrence Myth Stit,—the Chairman Of Jonathan Cape...

support of T. E. Lawrence from writings of FM Wavell and Sir Winston Churchill. I knew the former quite well and hold his opinions in great respect, but I fear, on this point. I......

Sir.—i'm Afraid W. D. Paden Is Wrong In The Dispute

about whether the US Government denies passports to Communists. He says the Supreme Court 'squashed the practice some years ago.' In applying for a new US passport a week ago, I......

Sir,—as A Reader Of Your Publication, Might I Say I

strongly disagree with your correspondent's views on the question of our possible entry into the EEC. You are of course entitled to print such nonsense —there is however an......

Distributing Profits

SIR,—As a reader who has recently returned to the Spectator, I was distressed to find that Nicholas Davenport's thinking has hardly progressed at all during my absence (see The......