11 MAY 1985, page 21

Letters Quennell And Clio

Sir: May I, belatedly, add an historical detail to your excellent portrait of Peter Quennell (Survivors, 9 March)? In the late 1950s I sent off — for the untold time — a......

Vietnam

Sir: As one of Mr West's academic histor- ians I suggest there is really no mystery ('The war that never ended', 27 April) why we 'handed back' Vietnam to the French. In August......

Good Writing

Sir: I think that the person who writes your letters should write the rest of the maga- zine. J. C. R. Post 36 Craven Street, London WC2......

Taste For Heresy

Sir: I don't understand why Auberon Waugh gleefully writes of the Bishop of Durham: 'When a paid-up bishop gets in on the act the whole edifice crumbles' ('Another voice', 27......

Daniel Mannix

Sir: Dr Edward Norman, in his review of B. A. Santamaria's book on Daniel Man- nix (6 April), does an injustice to the memory of the famous Archbishop of Melbourne when he......

Improvement

Sir: Don't listen to the Fogeys, young or old: the new layout/presentation is a great improvement. How come xoC luaP? Tony Rushton 6 Carlisle Street, London WI......

Lloyd's Scandal

Sir: Christopher Fildes takes a charitable and rather too amiable view (City and Suburban, 27 April) of the losses now coming to light at Lloyd's. In the case of his friend's......

The Spectator

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