12 AUGUST 1972, page 15

Social Therapy

Sir: One does not have to be a psychotherapist to detect the note of criticism in Jef Smith's reference to the meeting called by social workers to explore the place of......

Striking Oil

Sir: In June I borrowed from the library a detective story, French Strikes On, written twenty years ago by the late Freeman Wills Crofts. I assumed the title to be purely......

First-class Mind

Sir: Simply for the record, I correct a mistake of your (by me unheard of) reviewer (Christopher Hudson, July 22): the editor of the Cornish anthology in question was anxious......

Many Apologies

Sir: In a recent letter about ILEA, Which you recently published, I made a factual error about Mr Peter Newsam, the Deputy Educa tion Officer of ILEA. Mr Peter Newsam took a......

Russian Dissent

Sir: I think that a true broad generalisation can be derived from Tibor Szamuely's exemplarily lucid review of the liberalist-intellectual position in Russia, (July 22). It is......

Sir: I Am Not Quite Clear What Mr Tibor Szamuely

is trying to say in his article, 'The future of Soviet dissent' (July 221. On the one hand, he says that the Soviet dissenters are the intelligentsia, the ' elite' of Russia,......

Defending Canute

Sir: Many a man is remembered for little more than a single deed; but was such a deed ever so frequently misrepresented? And was the reputation of such a man ever so......

After Direct Rule

Sir: You may recall that I was distinctly unenthusiastic about your Direct Rule campaign some months ago. Events have proved me right and Ulster is even worse off without......