S Pectator Qpectator October 12, 1974

cannot alter the basis of its authority Without consulting the electorate. This Was recognised at Westminster 1910-13 over the very question of Irish Home Rule and the connected......

I Nflation Sir: In The Weimar Inflation Of 1923 The Mark

reached extinction through W orthlessness. Just another piece of Paper. The then German politicians, h owever, had enough decency to give back to their government bondholders......

Tragedy At Kiel

Sir: As one of the volunteer soldiers who J u mPed on Exercise 'Bold Guard,' and r il arr owly missed the Kiel Canal, I would Ike to thank you for the excellent piece on the......

Old Record

Mr FitzGibbon (October 5) is right. mY Mind is inferior — would anyone Wi th a superior mind play the mouth ?Egan for a living' ) — and as he says, my "'Oughts are muddled 'as......

Riposte

Sir: In her riposte (September . 28) in connection with Kenneth Robinson's review of her book Dark Corridor, Denise Robins uses that cynical old wisecrack about "laughing all......

Victorian Enigma

Sir: Benny Green (September 28) might have added, in pursuit of his hypothesis, that Sir Edward Elgar was born in 1857. Victorian England's strident self-confidence was rather......

Survival Of Poetry

From the Rev. D. G. Davies Sir: My heart leapt up when I beheld and read (part of) the article, The Survival of Poetry.' How excellent to say, "over the last twenty years the......