10 DECEMBER 1948, page 16

Scapegoats ?

SIR, —It is not on personal grounds that I resent the suggestion of Mr. C. M. Woodhouse that "few of us could emerge unscathed from the Attorney-General's scrutiny of at least......

The Invincible Dowser .

Slit —A copy of The Spectator for November 26th has just reached me, and on page 700, in Country Life there is a rather sceptical note entitled The Invincible Dowser, which......

Whom

Sit,—Cannot something be done about this ill-used word ? It is a com- bination of the dative and accusative of the Anglo-Saxon relative pronoun, and, according to the Oxford......

The Choice In China

Sm,—Although I cannot agree with Tony Gibson about the " moderating process " within the Comnlinist regime in China, I can agree with him about the liberal elemenis in le "......

What Is Dutch Like ?

Sit,—In your issue of November 19th appeared a letter to you on what Dutch is like. That letter contained a translation into reputed Dutch of a sentence from Hamlet. I may have......