11 MARCH 1966, page 15

Deflation Without Tears

SIR,--Nigel Lawson has now joined several other commentators in assuming that the drop in cigarette- smoking last year was caused by the high rate of duty on cigarettes. Every......

Sir,—mr. Barnes Misses The Point Of My Letter About The

War Game, which was- has Mr. Watkins actually seen a nuclear war? If not, why does he think the rest of us need to? DORIS DAVY Ridge House. Kingston. Lewes, SUAAex SIR.--Paul......

Sir,—your Correspondent Mr. S. D. W. Milligan. A...

Bradfield College. says that the majority at his public school would welcome inte- gration with the state system. Does he include the masters? Any government, Conservative or......

Balanchine On Ballet

SIR, — In your February 18 issue (which contains a review of my novel Two People) Clement Crisp refers in his ballet column to a statement by Balanchine on the law of optics for......

What Kind Of School?

Sig,-1 should be extremely grateful for a brief 'right of reply' to what I consider to be some very unfair criticism of my letter (February 25). Mr. Milligan bases his criticism......

Fluoridation

Stit—I have subscribed to the SPECTATOR for SCUM thirty to forty years. I had not thought that I should live to find it in the hands of an editor capable of taking an attitude......

The Condorcet Method

SIR,—The 'brace ot American academics' must concede either 'Anglo-Saxon arrogance' or, what is worse, ignorance, with respect to M. Guilbaud's formula for the percentage of......

Mr. Short's Early Warning Sul,— Many Of Your Readers Will

doubtless have judged you right (as indeed I have) as to why the BBC withdrew its invitation to Mr. Tom Driberg to appear on a 24 Hours programme on Vietnam. But I am sure they......

Sir,—the Thought Of Being 'dosed By Decree' With Fluoride In

our water, appalling as it is in principle (think of its extension to hormones in the water to control population and mescalin in the water to weaken our resistance to......

Morality Begins At Home

&a,—Mr. R. A. Cline, in his article in your issue of February 25 on the Government's White Paper on Leasehold Enfranchisement. states: 'Never has any statute taken away the......