11 MARCH 1949, page 20

Intimidation In Eritrea

Sta,—I trust you will forgive me if once more I crave your hospitality in order to reply to Miss Pankhurst's letter in the Spectator of March 4th. The trouble with Miss......

Children's Books

Sut,—In her review of Children's Illustrated Books by Janet Adam Smith, Honor Croome wonders about an old favourite missed, " who was responsible . . . for that glorious colony......

Four 'races In Kenya

Sta,—Mr. Gordon Smith's comments on Mr. Hill's article on Kenya need elucidating. Mr. Smith writes: "Their decline the decline of the Masai) and division remain a noteworthy......

Intolerable " If " ?

Sm,—I was very glad to see the last sentence of Mr. Vulliamy's letter. I would not pretend to discuss with him the respective merits - of the rhymed stanza and free verse, but......

Spectator .

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Railway Travel

Snt,—As letters addressed to the Ministry of Transport and to the British Railways have received no acknowledgment whatever, I venture to bring a complaint to your notice. It......

A Barbaric Custom

Sta,—About thirty years ago I came across a case of severe injury inflicted on a young girl as the result of circumcision by an ignorant midwife. I reported the case to the......

Lascaux And Laval

Sut,—No one who has seen these astonishing cave-paintings will doubt, as . Mr. Nicolson says, that they are " one of the wonders of the world." That is partly because of their......

Non-christians In Parliament

Snt,—In reply to Mrs. J. M. Harper, who asks why no one has brought forward Bills to extend the - right to sit in the 'House of Commons to Moslems, Hindus or Buddhists, there is......