10 JUNE 1955, page 22

The Roman Index

SIR,—In his scholarly and highly interesting article, Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas describes the Roman Index as 'a pious anachronism.' Here in England, in partibus infidelittm,......

Australian Memories

SIR,—Reading Taming of the North, by Hudson Fysh, a story of pioneering in Queens- land by immigrants from the old country and more especially a story of Alexander Kennedy, the......

Public Accounts Committee

SIR,—Nicholas Davenport considers that the Public Accounts Committee is a poor substi- tute for shareholders' control, and that Mini- ster-appointed public boards for......

Sir,—an Analysis Of The Universities And Pub- Lic Schools At

which some of the members of the new House of Commons were educated shows that 92 of them were at Oxford com- pared to 62 at Cambridge, 9 at Glasgow, 7 at Edinburgh and 5 at......

Letters To The Editor

Racial Prejudice Helen Brander The Roman Index Harold Binns Public Accounts Committee Col. H. R. Pe Th Footplate Folly J. P. Bardsley Educating MPs Algernon B. Dale Australian......

In The Family

SIR.—Thank you very much for the book token received today. The other prize-winners this week are, by a remarkable coincidence, my sister and brother-in-law, and my father has......

Footplate Folly

SIR,—To condone, as your leading article in this week's Spectator appears to, the unions' 'constant complaints about being put under the management of retired generals' appears......

Christening Cubs

SIR,—Did Strix really 'christen' the fox cubs in the car coming home? He gave them names, yes, but was the Christian Church really involved? Am I being stuffy in thinking that......

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