11 MAY 1962, page 16

Anti-american Attitudes

SIR,—Starbuck has missed the whole point of the complaints about the BBC programme on anti- American attitudes, which is simply that all the con- tributors were so obviously......

Polymorphs For Passengers Sia,—a Sharp Reprimand Has Been...

my typist* (or the mistake in the date given in my article for Sir Harry Legge-Bourke's first mention of the Swallow variable sweep aircraft in the House of Commons. My original......

Taxi!

SIR,—Last week you referred to 'the inefficiency and incivility of the taxi trade.' During the last eighteen months I have made some 400 journeys by taxi at busy times in......

Arguments For Testing Sir,—though The Guiding Principle...

plosions should be as destructive as possible, the variety of means of delivering bombs and warheads is now so great that all kinds of refinements of design may be thought......

Sir,—in Answer To Messrs. Parm6e And,4: 'jack Son Who...

that the works of EuropeSn-novelists such as Queiroz, Galdos, Baroja, Storm...and .Fon- tane are not available in English translation,' allow me to point out that some works by......

Donkey For Dinner

after the siege of Paris. The story will be found in G. G. Coulton's Fourscore Years (Cambridge, 1943), donkey was served at a dinner in Cambridge shortly Postgate may 'be......

Celestial Infancies

SIR,--H. B. Levin writes in your issue of April 27 of Dartington School, describing a girl having her head banged against a wall because she decided to go to Holy Communion.......

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......