11 MAY 1962, page 15

The Uncertain Smile Of Australia

SIR,—One of Australia's misfortunes is to be sub- jected regularly by her countrymen to home thoughts from abroad. Usually they come back to us in the cables ('Aussies Feel......

Sir.—while Mr. Anthony Hartley Analyses The Plight Of...

(the Marxist cant word has, one takes it, come to stay) with striking Perception one may perhaps question his general fairness and his final- conclusion. If we are slow to......

Sir,—i • Would Like To Comment On Two Points In

Craig McGregor's article in the Spectator of April 27, which seems to me (with only one year's ex- perience of Australia) a very true picture of the country. Few would quarrel......

Intellectuals .of England Geoffrey Carnal,. George...

of Australia Evan Williams, Robert Barnard The Alternative Vote Enid Lakeman Pulymurphs for Passengers Oliver St44rt Anti-American Attitudes Nicolas Walter Arguments for Testing......

The Alternative Vote

StR,—I am glad to see Christopher Hollis advocat- ing some measure of electoral reform, even though it is an insufficient one. The alternative vote would indeed do away with all......