12 NOVEMBER 1943, page 13

The Persuasive Voice

SIR, —Your reviewer of Mr. Thompson's Voice of Civilisation : An Enquiry into Advertising ends his notice, " We can be grateful that Britain has not reached such heights of......

Sir,—mr. Burgess Asks Us To Learn A Few Lessons From

the men of the Red Army, " who are putting up a great fight without church parades." We can indeed learn many things from them. A letter from Geneva, quoted in Sobornost (June,......

Co'ttagers' Light

Sm,—I have read with interest the article on the above subject by Lieut.-Col. C. Waley Cohen, in The Spectator of October 29th, in which he makes some useful and practical......

"padre's Hour "

SIR, —I should like to endorse all that George Burgess said in your issue of November 5th, and to add that during the two years I served in the Army in this country I came......

Mary Coleridge Sir,—we Are Indebted To Mrs. Battiscombe...

very interesting Life of Charlotte M. Yonge (lately reviewed in The Spectator) with its full and discriminating estimate of the novels and of the social and religious atmosphere......

Sir, —a Great Deal Of Controversy Has Arisen Because The...

Paper has been misunderstood. May I draw attention to the following state- ment made on November 5th by Mr. R. A. Butler, President of the Board of Education? " The term 5o per......

The Churches And Education

SIR,—Paragraph 45 of the White Paper states that " the divided responsi- bilities of this system of dual control have given rise to endless com- plications in administration,......