10 JANUARY 1964, page 18

The Book Trade

SIR,—The Boulting Brothers' stimulating article on the trials and tribulations of the film industry led me to thinking about the book trade, where one has just been informed......

Curtain

SIR,—In the Spectator for December 27 you described Sir Roy Welensky as weak and blustering. I presume this is because he stood up to you when you dis- solved the Federation of......

Vvii0 Flew First?

Sin,--Major Caldwell does well to bring gliders into this subject, but in mentioning Pitcher (killed 1899) he should not have omitted the German Lilienthal, who rightly insisted......

Sacking The General

SIR,—In his grand slam at BBC Television last week Christopher Booker was rather unfair to those of us in both the BBC and 1TV who were present at the annual awards dinner of......

The Situation In Singapore Sir,—with Reference To The...

a letter from a 'prominent member' of the anti-Malaysia Barisan Sosialis sent to you through Mr. George Edinger (Spectator, November 29), may I first correct sonic errors of......

Courts Martial

SIR,—Sir William James draws attention to the possibilities of a miscarriage of justice by court martial. He is right to do so, for in an imperfect world no tribunal has yet......