11 AUGUST 1961, page 14

Fighting Rising Prices T. B. Waddicor Borrowed Time...

B. Rathbone Insufferable Patronage Rev. Victor H. Beaton British Railways Claude C. J. Simmonds, Terence Cooper Lords of the Shambles Christopher Sykes Southern Rhodesia W. R.......

Sm,—on July 10 I Travelled To Penzance On The Cornish

Riviera Expre.ss and took lunch in the dining car. There was a large brown stain on the tablecloth and In a small vase a carnation drooped from a broken stalk. The window-ledge......

Insufferable Patronage Sir,—about Monica Furlong's...

1 don't think that we ought to blame the passing over of Mr. Boulton to the in- fluence of the MU. Unless evidence is produced to the contrary, Church leaders of the......

British Railways Sir,—when 1 Read Vehement Complaints...

I wonder why, as an entirely ordinary traveller, my experiences are quite different. Twice a week I make long-distance journeys on the Western Region. The trains are clean,......

Lords Of The Shambles Sir,—reviewing Two Books About The...

World War in your issue of July 28, Mr. James Cameron opens by declaring that continuing public interest (described as obsessional) in that war strikes him as 'very odd,' and he......

Sir,-1 Agree With Only One Point In Your Editorial Of

August 4: 'Borrowed Time' (the last sentence of which 1 deplore) and that is that Mr. St. Clair should apply at once for the Chiltern Hundreds. This because the majority of the......