12 MAY 1961, page 16

International Aid

SIR,—In your last week's issue Mr. Nicholas Daven- port states that 'President Kennedy and Mr. Mac- millan arc backing the plan to turn the IMF into a credit-creating......

Caged Men

SIR,—I must apologise for an inaccuracy in ' my review of Christopher Burney's Solitary Confine- ment. I stated that one of Christopher Burney's colleagues was his sister and......

Ipsos Custodes

SIR,--Mr. R. A. Cline illustrates the negative manner (by non-disclosure of vital information) in which local bureaucrats and government departments may together confound the......

Stfi,—may I Add Something To Mrs. Furlong's Corn - Ments On

Dr. Vellay's lecture on painless child - birth? The method he practises does work—I have tried it. It is the loss of control which makes child- birth so distressing an......

Sir,—leslie Adrian Mentioned Aquascutum And Harrods Where...

when offering a cheque above £10 for goods. Departmental stores do not seem to have made up their collective mind on this question, and it is time they did, now that we are......

Day Of Dupes

SIR,—I feel that I owe an apology to readers of the Spectator, since it was I, many years ago, who recruited Mr. Robert Conquest into the Communist Party. The awful results of......