10 SEPTEMBER 1954, page 16

Sir,—i Wonder What Proportion Of So-called ' City Men' Read

the Spectator? I hope it is a very large one so that they have the evidence of Mr. John Betjeman in ' A Spectator's Notebook' in support of the need for homes, in the City.......

Sir,—mr. Denis Healey Seems To Miss The Whole Point Of

Mr. Darsie Gillie's letter in your issue of August 27. Of course there were sadists of different nationalities who were prepared to use the opportunity presented to them by the......

Building Higher

SIR,—A question of interest to all concerned with housing will be raised at a Public Enquiry in the Paddington Town Hall on October 12. The plans of the Paddington Borough......

Lord Russell And The Germans

SIR,—I have only now seen the reply which Mr. Healey thought good to append to my letter printed in the Spectator of August 27. Mr. Healey in his article ' Lo'rd Russell and the......

Sudan Cultural Centre

SIR,—I was very much interested in, and encouraged by, Mr. Thomas Hodgkin's article 'Sell-determining Sudan,' published in your issue of September 3. There is, however, a small......

Sir,—your Correspondent C. S. C. Williams Has Not Got His

facts right about Roman Catholics and confession. Going to confession is strictly ?speaking obligatory only in case of 'grave sin,' and then it is obligatory in conscience only,......

Sir,—ii Is Encouraging 'to Sec John Betjeman Worrying,...

at the scandal of rebuilding in the City. Three hundred years ago, when the City was largely destroyed by fire, Wren's expan- sive plans for its rebuilding were abandoned as a......